Curriculum+Review+4

This is a review of the EPA's activity [|"How People get their Water"] which is for k-3 students. The goal of this curriculum is to help students understand the role of reservoirs in maintaining a reliable supply of drinking water. The educational goal of the EPA is to increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues or problems. In doing so, it provides the public with the necessary skills to make informed decisions and take responsible action.

The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment, which includes but is not limited to ensure that: This curriculum does a good job of showing kids how to model reservoirs but neglects to mention the negative effects of reservoirs. There are many negative environmental effects of dams and this curriculum seems to encourage the usage of dams. I feel like the curriculum should have focused more on other ways to create and store clean water without using dams that would be more environmentally friendly, which would have also satisfied an EcoGoal “Understanding of potential for change, and of alternative ways of doing things and organizing society”.
 * all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work;
 * national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best available scientific information;
 * federal laws protecting human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively