Concepts+Covered


 * Water Quality (Dori)
 * Taste Testing - qualitative
 * Flynn Scientific - Quantitative water test kit; Fe, pH, NO, PO, hardness, Cu, dissolved O, Chlorine
 * Water Pollution - Waste Water, Drinking Water
 * Water Quality Standards

Water Treatment (Tera) The History of Drinking Water - read through the document to gain an understanding of how the water treatment process started.
 * Types of Treatment
 * reversed osmosis
 * distillation
 * etc.
 * Treatment Plants - students will take an opportunity to explore the various stages of water treatment through virtual tours. Students will also be able to look at the similarities and differences in the treatment process between a waste water plant and a drinking water plant.

Plastics as Pollutants (Cheryl)
 * General Information about Plastics
 * Plastic Pollution Coalition at http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/
 * Smithsonian Institute - History of Plastics at @http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8008.htm
 * Educational Resources and Activities - @http://www.americanchemistry.com/hops/intro_to_plastics/index.html
 * Material and Mechanical Properties of Plastics at @http://www.plasticsintl.com/sortable_materials.php?display=mechanical


 * Chemistry of plastics
 * Chemistry Daily's Chemistry Encyclopedia - @http://www.chemistrydaily.com/chemistry/Plastic
 * Lectures on Polymer Chemistry - @http://www.uwsp.edu/cols-ap/polyed/Pages/polymerOverview.aspx
 * "Heating Plastics". Nobelprize.org. 12 Oct 2011 @http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/chemistry/plastics/


 * How plastics degrade/or not
 * Microbial Degradation of Plastics - @http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic
 * [[file:Degradation-of-Polymers.pdf]]

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 * Plastics in the ocean
 * http://www.5gyres.org/
 * [[file:PlasticMarineDebris.pdf]]
 * NOAA Marine Debris Program - @http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/plastic.html
 * National Geographic article about chemicals that leach out of plastics into water []
 * Consequences of plastic in the environment
 * New York Clean Water Advocate - @http://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/tapwater/bottle-water/
 * Scientific American article, 2009, @http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=plastic-not-so-fantastic
 * PBS Point of View Program's Focus on Bottled Water Issues- @http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/2004/water/


 * Living without plastic/auditing plastic usage
 * Beth Terry's Blog about how she is living an almost plastic-free life - @http://myplasticfreelife.com/
 * Reuseit - a website dedicated to helping people go plastic-free - @http://www.reuseit.com/store/
 * SmartPlanet Article - @http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/can-we-live-without-plastic/5595
 * Whole Countries and cities with plastic bag bans - @http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/how-many-cities-have-a-ban-on-plastic-bags.html

Plastic Manufacturing/Recycling (Renata)
 * Processes of manufacturing
 * Processes of recycling
 * % manufactured that is recycled
 * Energy Comparison
 * manufacturing - where does plastic come from? how much energy does it take to get it?
 * recycling - what happens to them? what do they become? how many times can they be recycled?