POLLUTION and POLLUTION SOLUTIONS
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Title: Acid Mine Drainage in Pennsylvania
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers (grades K-12)
Length: 52 pp
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Activities designed to increase student awareness of the
effects of acid mine drainage
Title: Acid Rain
Format: Fact sheet (electronic file available on website)
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Air Quality
Description: How acid rain is formed and can be controlled
Title: Acid Rain in Pennsylvania
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 3 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Focuses on acid rain problems and solutions in Pennsylvania
Title: Basics of Water Pollution in Pennsylvania
Format: Booklet
Audience: General, anglers, boaters
Length: 10 pp
Contact: PA Fish and Boat Commission
Description: Explains the affect that pollution has on our aquatic resources
Title: Be Part of the Pollution Solution
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Homeowners, citizens and students
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Association Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: List of water quality tips on a cut-out card with a picture
of a river otter, otter facts on other side of card
Title: Citizen's Guide To Soil Erosion Control
Format: Brochure
Audience: Citizens
Length: 4 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Definition, origin, and control of sediment pollution
Title: Down the Drain
Format: Video
Audience: Students (grades 2-7)
Length: 30 minutes
Contact: PA Fish and Boat Commission
Description: Teaches about properties of water, water cycle, water pollution,
how to reduce pollution and conserve water
Title: Education Resource Catalog
Format: Catalog
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 pp
Contact: PA Fish and Boat Commission
Description: Catalog of a variety of educational resources available
from PA Fish and Boat Commission
Title: Environmental Resource Guide - Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention
Series
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers/educators (grades K-12)
Length: Varies ($12-$40)
Contact: Air and Waste Management Association
Description: Guide addresses the impact of land use on the quality of
water; activities focus on agriculture, mining, forestry and urban pollution
and four types of pollution: sediment, nutrients, bacteria, and toxic
Title: Good Neighbors…Tackling Nonpoint Source Pollution in Pennsylvania
Format: Brochure
Audience: General
Length: 4 pp
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Sources of nonpoint source pollution and what farmers, developers,
and citizens can do to prevent it
Title: GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Air Quality, Clearing the Air, Dealing
with Waste, Pollution Prevention, Pollution: Solutions and Results
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various
environmental issues
Title: Handle With Care: Your Guide to Preventing Water Pollution
Format: Book
Audience: Citizens
Length: 30 pp ($12.95)
Contact: EnviroScape®
Description: This manual show how to pollution-proof your home-and take
personal responsibility for pollution prevention
Title: Local Solutions To Pennsylvania's Pollution: Pennsylvania's Nonpoint
Source Management Program
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 15 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Highlights the watershed management activities to control
nonpoint source pollution
Title: Managing Sediments and Nutrients in the Susquehanna River Basin
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 91 pp
Contact: Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Description: Explores innovative ways for reducing nutrients and sediments
in the Susquehanna River
Title: Nitrates and Your Water Supply
Format: Slide and tape sets
Audience: Farmers
Length: 15 minutes
Contact: Penn State University - County Cooperative Extension Offices
Description: Explains nitrate drinking water pollution and solutions
(LS0456,35)
Title: Nutrient Pollution
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Description: Describes nutrient related pollution problems and suggested
solutions
Title: Pointless Pollution
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 28 minutes
Contact: Bullfrog Films, Inc., PA Association of Conservation Districts,
Inc.
Description: Addresses nonpoint source pollution; various sites filmed
throughout the U.S.
Title: Pollution: Begins and Ends With You
Format: Puzzle
Audience: Students and general
Length: 550 pieces ($9.80)
Contact: EnviroScape®
Description: This puzzle contains beautiful illustrations and how each of
us can make a difference in preventing water pollution
Title: Students Monitoring Aquatic Resources Together (SMART)
Format: Materials
Audience: Teachers
Length: Set of four booklets: lesson ideas, acid rain facts, monitoring
manuals
Contact: Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM)
Description: Background information and monitoring activities addressing
acquatic resources; also provide site-specific workshops for teachers and students
Title: Water and the Human Spirit
Format: Video
Audience: Teachers (grades 7-12)
Length: 27 minutes
Contact: Bullfrog Films
Description: Communities solving their own water problems
Title: Who Polluted Meyers' Lake
Format: Video
Audience: General, farmers
Length: Two 12-minute segments
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Focuses on the Meyer family and how they contribute to nonpoint
source pollution and what they can do to stop it; Segment #1-NPS pollution from
the home; Segment #2-NPS pollution from agriculture