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About Pesticides at Schoolpacket.
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Title, Contents and Introduction: Learning About Pesticides at School
Project 1: Mapping Pesticide Use at Your School
Project 2: Finding Alternative Pest Control Strategies for Your School
Project 3: Changing Your School's Pesticide Use Policies and Practices
Project 4: How Effective Are Pest Control Alternatives?
Project 5: Truth in Advertising?: Analysis of Pesticide Product Ads
Project 6: Household Pesticide Product Label Survey, Analysis and Altenatives
Project 7: Pesticide Policy Debates
Project 8: Using the Freedom of Information Act
Project 9: Pesticide Incidents and Accidents
Project 10: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Project 11: Occupational Hazards: The Risks Pesticides Pose to Farmworkers
Project 12: Food Safety: Do School Lunches Make the Grade?
Project 13: Testing School Cafeteria Food for Pesticide Residues
Project 14: Testing Surfaces, Soil, and Water for Pesticide Residues
Project 15: On the Trail of Pesticides in Your Community
Project 16: Organic Farm Tour