Image Source - Water and Environmental Racism - Zinn Education Project
"Zip code is still the most potent predictor of an individual's health and well-being."
- Robert Bullard, considered "Father of Environmental Justice"
Instructions
Use the following sources to help you learn about this topic and complete your Guided Notes.
Guided Notes
Answer the following prompts/questions in your notes.
Use the following sources to help you learn about this topic and complete your Guided Notes.
- Teacher Background - Water and Environmental Racism - Zinn Education Project
- HANDOUTS (on table near door)
- Roles - you should have one person
- Name tag - write the name of the person on your paper on your name tag
- Individual Mixer Questions
- Whole Class Activity
- Focused Reading - 5 minutes - Read about your person, underline, highlight, make notes about the following questions
- What does your person do? Are they an artist? Teacher? Journalist? Political activist?
- How did your person contribute or play a role with this event?
- What's the most interesting thing about your person?
- Lastly, think about what questions you can answer if your person and put a star by 3 of them.
- Mixer
- Find people to answer the different questions on your Mixer Questions Handout
- Find people to answer the different questions on your Mixer Questions Handout
- ABSENT OPTION
- Watch - Video - In Flint, public trust poisoned by toxic drinking water crisis (12min)
- What are 5 things you learned about this water crisis in Flint, Michigan?
- What are 3 questions this makes you think about when it comes to environmental justice and racism?
- Watch - Video - In Flint, public trust poisoned by toxic drinking water crisis (12min)
- Focused Reading - 5 minutes - Read about your person, underline, highlight, make notes about the following questions
- HANDOUTS (on table near door)
Guided Notes
Answer the following prompts/questions in your notes.
- complete your Mixer Questions Handout