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

Tools for this Unit:

Others

http://www.bio.net/hypermail/plant-education/2005-April/007855.html.

(Accessed July 21, 2009). Contains downloadable power point presentation of Starch Pictures created by Walker.

Brudvig, Gary. Photosynthesis Power Point. Yale National Teacher Initiative Intensive Session, July 13, 2009. An excellent resource on artificial photosynthesis.

DDT Video (Sent and shared By Catherine Salvin, San Francisco)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8992996773895395024&ei=aINeSsugNIr0lQfLvZ0c&q=pandora%27s+box+part+4. A video that shows how toxic effects of DDT among living things.

Anastas, Paul. Running the Numbers. Yale National Initiative Organizational

Session, Yale University, May 1, 2009. A jaw-dropping power point presentation of various chemicals that build-up in the environment.

http://www.digitalpublisher.co.uk/Oxygraphics/starchpics.pdf

(Accessed July 21, 2009). A downloadable Laboratory Procedure of "Making Starch Pictures."

Duffus, John. Heavy Metals (Chemistry International Vol. 23. No.6). November, 2001

http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2001/November/heavymetals.html

(Accessed July 16, 2009). A good resource on getting data about heavy metals.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. Antimony Compounds.United States Environmental Protection Agency. Antimony Compounds.

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/antimony.html. (Accessed June 27, 2009). An excellent website on toxicity level of antimony.

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). A research study describing the properties of chromium.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Tox Facts About Copper

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts132.html#bookmark03.

(Accessed June 27, 2009). This website gives properties and toxicity level of copper.

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). An excellent resource on heavy metal contamination.

http://www.epa.gov/region5superfund/ecology/html/casestudiestoc.html

(Accessed July 15, 2009). A website on superfund case studies in the Midwest.

http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb4/water_issues/programs/remediation/chromium/chromestaff_report_11_13.pdf

(Accessed July 15, 2009). A website discussing a case study on metal contamination in Glendale, California.

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