A multimedia toolkit for teaching environmental health literacy topics related to Superfund sites

摘要 人类健康与环境息息相关。通过围绕环境健康培养识字能力 风险、个人和社区将能够更好地关键地访问相关信息并做出 保持或提高生活质量的判断和明智的决定。然而，科学素养水平较低 和算术在外行个人中很常见，可能会成为理解基本数据和 量化风险信息。ArchieMD建议发展教育环境健康素养(EHL) 以交互式多媒体智能手机应用程序的形式提供给中学生和大专学生的工具 这既提供了获取基础环境健康内容知识的手段，也提供了书面的、 具备弹流润滑所必需的数值、分析技能。因为学生们最有可能参与并体验 当他们能够在手头的材料和他们自己的生活之间建立相关的联系时，他们就会学得更好 拟议的应用程序将允许学生在他们附近找到超级基金地点，并围绕 他们选择的地点。这将包括评估与以下环境暴露相关的健康风险 以及如何管理这些风险。这款应用程序由分层交互视觉支持，将 包括案例研究场景、数据集和风险分析工具，可用于解释数据、生成风险 估计，并做出明智的决定。将开发创新的视觉模型(“风险严重程度象形图”) 以传统的象形文字为基础，以可接近的方式传达环境暴露风险。 信息将以非线性方式呈现，以适应用户的需要。这种交互式方法 旨在吸引用户并提高学习理解力。要演示概念验证，请使用 原型应用程序将在第一阶段开发，具体地说，ArchieMD将：1)开发内容以支持 购买EHL，包括与国民教育有关的课程和互动练习 标准；2)建立初始的多媒体原型应用程序，包括创新的视觉模型和年龄 适当的工具来查看和分析数据；3)开发访问和搜索超级基金数据库的能力 来自应用程序内的站点；以及4)通过以下方式评估应用程序在支持EHL收购方面的效果 以基于标准文本的材料或ArchieMD的形式提供给中学生的同等信息 交互式多媒体应用程序，以及比较学生成绩。通过将环境健康纳入 将概念转化为亲身实践的主动学习形式，激发学生的兴趣，并与 根据国家教育标准，建议的创新将围绕环境健康风险建立扫盲。这个 APP也可以改编为普通公众使用。

Abstract Human health and the environment are intimately intertwined. By building literacy around environmental health risks, individuals and communities will be better able to critically access related information and to make judgments and informed decisions to maintain or improve quality of life. However, low levels of science literacy and numeracy are common among lay individuals and can act as a barrier to understanding basic data and quantitative risk information. ArchieMD proposes to develop an education environmental health literacy (EHL) tool for secondary and post-secondary students, in the form of an interactive multimedia smart phone application that provides both a means of acquiring foundational environmental health content knowledge as well as written, numerical, and analytical skills essential to EHL. Because students are most likely to be engaged and experience better learning when they can make relevant connections between the material at hand and their own lives, the proposed application will allow students to identify a superfund site in their vicinity, and to build EHL around the site of their choosing. This will include assessing health risks associated with environmental exposures that relate to that site, as well as how to manage these risks. The app, supported by layered interactive visuals, will include case study scenarios, data sets and risk analysis tools that can be used to interpret data, generate a risk estimate, and make informed decisions. Innovative visual models (“risk severity pictographs”) will be developed to expand upon traditional pictographs to communicate environment exposure risks in accessible ways. Information will be presented in a non-linear fashion to adapt to the needs of the user. This interactive approach is designed to engage the user and improve learning comprehension. To demonstrate proof-of-concept, a prototype application will be developed in Phase I. Specifically, ArchieMD will: 1) Develop content to support acquisition of EHL, including curriculum and interactive exercises with connection to national education standards; 2) Build out an initial multimedia prototype application, including innovative visual models and age appropriate tools to view and analyze data; 3) Develop the ability to access and search a database of superfund sites from within the app; and 4) Evaluate the efficacy of the app in supporting EHL acquisition by providing equivalent information to secondary students, either in the form of standard text-based materials or ArchieMD's interactive multimedia application, and comparing student outcomes. By incorporating environmental health concepts into a hands-on active learning format that stimulates student interest and has a clear connection to national education standards, the proposed innovation will build literacy around environmental health risks. The app can also be adapted for use by the general public.