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Caroline Payson, Education, Maryland Public Television, 11767 Owings Mills Blvd., Owings Mills, MD 21117, 410-581-4053, carolinepayson@mpt.org and Michael A. Trush, PhD, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205.

Maryland Public Television (MPT), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland State Department of Education, Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education (JHU CTE), and 4 Maryland urban school districts have joined to develop, implement, evaluate & disseminate an innovative model for using environmental health as an integrative context for learning. Specific aims include: 1) Development & cutting-edge dissemination of high-quality Maryland State Standards-based online educational resources for middle school teachers & students on MPT & JHU CTE’s Thinkport supersite at: www.thinkport.org, including interdisciplinary environmental health lessons, an Electronic Learning Community (ELC) at: http://www.cte.jhu.edu/ep/, an award-winning EnviroMysteries: Breaking the Mold video & interactive website at: http://enviromysteries.thinkport.org/, and an environmental health/education technology teacher training video. 2) Development of intensive teacher training programs in environmental health & technology. 3) Provision to schools of an environmental health scientists’ Speakers Bureau.

Currently in the early stages of the project’s implementation phase (Fall 2003 - Spring 2006), we are gathering formative data to help define the program & determine levels of satisfaction with project teacher training programs; assess knowledge & skills gained by teacher participants through trainings & the ELC; and determine effects of implementing integrated environmental health content & technology resources on student motivation and learning.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to

• Identify cutting-edge technology tools and resources that can be used to deliver interdisciplinary lessons based on environmental health curricular content
• Recognize that environmental health topics, issues and career opportunities can be successfully integrated in all major middle school curriculum areas to engage and motivate students of all abilities to learn and to inform others.

Keywords: Education, Environmental Health

Related Web page: www.thinkport.org/career/training/mpt/connections/default.tp

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Maryland Public Television, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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