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Publication #4H HEL 70.12

Headlines for Health! Asthma Attack!1

Joy Jordan, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Susan Williams, and Jessica Kochert2

Children today will be exposed to more chemicals over their lifetimes than any previous generation. Headlines for Health teaches youth about the environmental hazards that may exist around them and helps youth to recognize the warning signs of these environmental hazards before the risks become serious.

The project culminates in an student-created environmental health newspaper with a variety of articles and features to help keep youth and their families safe from environmental dangers.

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Headlines for Health is divided into the following lesson plans:

Clean Sweep
Scavenger Hunt
Let's Go Green
AD-vantageous Cleaners
What's Growing On?
Moldy Advice
The Lead Scenario
Sherlock "Radon" Holmes
Pollution Solution
Asthma Triggers, M.D.
Asthma Attack!
• Newspaper Fact Sheets

Footnotes

1. This document is 4H HEL 70.12, one of a series of the 4-H Youth Development Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication dateJuly 2007. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2. Joy Jordan, 4-H Youth Development Specialist, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Housing Specialist, Susan Williams, Grant Project Manager, and Jessica Kochert, Graphic Design and Publication Support, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.