Learning+Objectives+-+Pollution

Pennsylvania Ecology and Environment Standards related to pollution:

4.3.10 B Explain how multiple variables determine the effects of pollution on environmental health, natural processes and human practices.
 * Identify local and state environmental regulations and their impact on environmental health.
 * Identify and explain ways of detecting pollution by using state-of-the-art technologies.

4.3.10 C Explain biological diversity as an indicator of a healthy environment.
 * Explain species diversity.
 * Analyze the effects of species extinction on the health of an ecosystem.

4.3.12.A Analyze the complexity of environmental health issues.
 * Analyze efforts to prevent, control and/or reduce pollution through cost and benefit analysis and risk management.
 * Describe the impact of occupational exposures as they relate to environmental health issues.
 * Explain the relationship between wind direction and velocity as it relates to dispersal and occurrence of pollutants.
 * Explain the different disposal methods used for toxic and hazardous waste.

4.3.12 B Analyze the local, regional and national impacts of environmental health.
 * Analyze the cost of natural disasters in both dollars and loss of natural habitat.
 * Research and analyze the local, state and national laws that deal with point and nonpoint source pollution; evaluate the costs and benefits of these laws.
 * Explain mitigation and its role in environmental health.
 * Explain industry’s initiatives to meet state and federal mandates on clean air and water.
 * Describe the impacts of point and nonpoint source pollution on the Chesapeake Bay.
 * Identify and evaluate the costs and benefits of laws regulating air and water quality and waste disposal.

4.3.12 C Analyze the need for a healthy environment.
 * Research the relationship of some chronic diseases to an environmental pollutant.
 * Explain how man-made systems may affect the environment.

4.8.12 C Analyze how pollution has changed in quality, variety and toxicity as the United States developed its industrial base.
 * Analyze historical pollution trends and project them for the future.
 * Compare and contrast historical and current pollution levels at a given location.

4.9.10 A Explain why environmental laws and regulations are developed and enacted.
 * Understand conflicting rights of property owners and environmental laws and regulations.
 * Analyze the roles that local, state and federal governments play in the development and enforcement of environmental laws.
 * Identify local and state environmental regulations and their impact on environmental health.
 * Explain the positive and negative impacts of the Endangered Species Act.

4.9.12 A Analyze environmental laws and regulations as they relate to environmental issues.
 * Analyze and explain how issues lead to environmental law or regulation (e.g., underground storage tanks, regulation of water discharges, hazardous, solid and liquid industrial waste, endangered species).
 * Compare and contrast environmental laws and regulations that may have a positive or negative impact on the environment and the economy.
 * Research and describe the effects of an environmental law or regulation and how it has impacted the environment.