Green Chemistry

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.05.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Objectives
  3. Rationale
  4. Background
  5. Strategies and Classroom Activities
  6. Implementing District Standards
  7. Bibliography
  8. Annotated Teacher Resources
  9. Others
  10. Endnotes

How Much Is Too Much? Teaching Measurement and Solution Concentration through Bioaccumulation and Levels of Toxicity

Myrna Merana Alvarez

Published September 2009

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Endnotes

1 Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. 8 2 Belarus Academy of Sciences. http://www.greenpeace.or/usa. (Accessed June 24, 2009) 3 Bhopal Information Center. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy. http://www.bhopal.com (Accessed June 24, 2009) 4 Dunlop, Thomas R. DDT, Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy. 60 5 Walker, David. Energy, Plants, and Man. 58 6 Anastas, Paul T., and Warner, John C. Green Chemistry, Theory and Practice. 30 7 Campbell, Neil A., and Reece, Jane B. AP Biology. 181-184 8 http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html. (Accessed May 23, 2009). 9 Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. 48 10 Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy. Ix 11 Girard, James E. Principles of Environmental Ecology. 42 12 Girard, James E. Principles of Environmental Ecology. 46 13 Schapiro, Mark and Weir, David. Circles of Poison 60 14 Dunlop, Thomas R. DDT, Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy. 17 15 Dunlop, Thomas R. DDT, Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy. 19 16 Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy. ix 17 http://www.texasep.org/html/pes/pes_1usa.html. (Accessed May 23, 2009). 18 Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy. Ix 19 Dunlop, Thomas R. DDT, Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy. 1 20 Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. 22 21 Matlack, Alfred S. Introduction to Green Chemistry. 67 22 Duffus, John H. Chemistry International http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2001/November/heavymetals.html (Accessed July 16, 2009). 23 Matlack, Alfred S. Introduction to Green Chemistry. 67 24 Duffus, John H. Chemistry International http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2001/November/heavymetals.html (Accessed July 16, 2009). 25 http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/3dec8ba3252368428825742600743733/ 23fed941bf316814882575ad006288. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 26 Hansel, Colleen, Fendor, Scott, and Wielengar, Bruce. Fate and Stability of Cr Following Reduction of Microbially Generated Fe (II) http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/highlights_archive/cr_contamination.html (Accessed June 27, 2009). 27 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Tox Facts for Chromium. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts7.html#bookmark05 (Accessed June 27, 2009). 28 Gilbert, Steven G., A Small Dose of Toxicology, The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. 91-92 29 Gilbert, Steven G., A Small Dose of Toxicology, The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. New York: CRC Press, 2004, 60. 30 Gilbert, Steven G. A Small Dose of Toxicology, The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. 104 31 Gilbert, Steven G. A Small Dose of Toxicology, The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. New York: CRC Press, 2004, 104-105 32 Gilbert, Steven G. A Small Dose of Toxicology, The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. New York: CRC Press, 2004, 104-105 33 http://www.lenntech.com/heavy-metals.htm. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 34 http://old.global-unions.org/pdf/ohsewpq_9f.EN (Accessed June 27, 2009). 35 United States Environmental Protection Agency. Antimony Compounds. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/antimony.html. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 36 United States Environmental Protection Agency. Antimony Compounds. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/antimony.html. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 37 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Tox Facts About Copper. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts132.html#bookmark03. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 38 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Tox Facts About Copper. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts132.html#bookmark03. (Accessed June 27, 2009) 39 USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative. A Watershed-Scale Approach to Tracing Metal Contamination in the Environment. http://amli.usgs.gov/reports/cntc/cntcmite.html. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 40 The Risk Assessment Information System http://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/nickel_and_nickel_compounds_f_V1.shtml. (Accessed June 27, 2009). 41 Brudvig, Gary. Photosynthesis Power Point, July 13, 2009 42 DDT Video (Sent and shared By Catherine Salvin, San Francisco) 43 Anastas, Paul. Running the Numbers. May 1, 2009 44 http://www.epa.gov/region5superfund/ecology/html/casestudiestoc.html (Accessed July 15, 2009). 45 http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb4/water_issues/programs/remediation/chromium/chromestaff_report_11_13.pdf (Accessed July 15, 2009).

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