Making a Safe, Clean & Healthy Home: for your family and the environment

Posted: September 11, 2019 by MAEE Administration

Category: Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge (SEEK)

Making a Safe, Clean & Healthy Home: for your family and the environment
Post Date:	September 11, 2019
Resource Type:	Professional Development short PDF Field Trip \| Program Curriculum
Description:	If you are an educator of parents of young children, such as an ECFE or Head Start teacher, or if you are a parent yourself, this free lesson can help you educate and learn about lessening the amount of toxins in your home for the sake of the family's health and the health of our waters. The lesson is geared towards helping parents identify and reduce the toxins in their home, especially cleaning products. It also shows the relationship between these products, the health of the family and water. It is easy to use and is a nice, casual way to learn about a topic that can be daunting. The lesson contains an agenda, suggested handouts, items that you can borrow from the MN Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), and a list of further resources. The lesson can take between 35 and 45 minutes depending on the length of discussion and whether or not you use the Incredible Journey game from the MN Department of Natural Resources (DNR). For a copy of this lesson, contact Colleen at colleen.schoenecker@state.mn.us or 1-651-757-2700.
Author:	North Central Lakes Collaborative (NCLC), adapted from a lesson by Colleen Schoenecker
Topic:	Health Water Pollution Prevention
Audience:	Public Formal Educator Early Childhood
Length in pages or time:	6
Fee?:	0
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Order information or contact:	For a copy of this lesson, contact Colleen at colleen.schoenecker@state.mn.us or 651-757-2700.
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Post Date:

September 11, 2019

Resource Type:

Description:

If you are an educator of parents of young children, such as an ECFE or Head Start teacher, or if you are a parent yourself, this free lesson can help you educate and learn about lessening the amount of toxins in your home for the sake of the family's health and the health of our waters. The lesson is geared towards helping parents identify and reduce the toxins in their home, especially cleaning products. It also shows the relationship between these products, the health of the family and water. It is easy to use and is a nice, casual way to learn about a topic that can be daunting.

The lesson contains an agenda, suggested handouts, items that you can borrow from the MN Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), and a list of further resources. The lesson can take between 35 and 45 minutes depending on the length of discussion and whether or not you use the Incredible Journey game from the MN Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

For a copy of this lesson, contact Colleen at colleen.schoenecker@state.mn.us or 1-651-757-2700.

Author:

North Central Lakes Collaborative (NCLC), adapted from a lesson by Colleen Schoenecker

Topic:

Audience:

Length in pages or time:

Fee?:

Library Loan?:

Is Training required?:

Seasonal?:

Language other than English:

Order information or contact:

For a copy of this lesson, contact Colleen at colleen.schoenecker@state.mn.us or 651-757-2700.

Link:

MAEE Partner

Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge (SEEK)