Curated OER
How Toxic Is It?
Students participate in an activity in which they investigate the scientific method and seed germination as well as practice graphing and metric measuring skills. Students examine toxicity by exposing Wisconsin Fast Plants seeds to toxic...
Curated OER
Is Your Home Hazardous to Your Health?
Students use a newspaper article as a springboard to small group research about common household toxins, focusing on where would one find these toxins in the home, the effects of the toxins on the human body and treatment for poisoning...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The Dose Makes the Poison or Does It?
In an interest to protect humans and the environment a question arises: how does one determine the toxicity level in various substances? Two sides of the argument are presented with support in this article. One side says all substances...