A World on Fire Environmental Lab - Collegiate Academies Unit 1 In Stock Now

Glacier Ice Melting Model

Ice cubes

Water

2 Medium-sized Tubs

Clay

Pushpins

Data Collection Sheet

Green House Effect

2 Clear plastic 2-liter bottles per team of students

Plastic wrap or clear plastic bags to cover the “greenhouses”

String or rubber bands to hold the plastic in place

2 Thermometers per team

Two 2”x 2” pieces of thin cardboard

Soil

Plastic rulers

Masking tape

Utility knife or saw for cutting the plastic bottles

Clip-on light source with at least a 100-watt bulb

Dead Zone Model

Three clear 2-liter soda bottles per group

Vernier Dissolved Oxygen Sensor

Masking  Tape

Plastic wrap

Rubber bands

Over-the-counter fertilizer  (15-0-0) and Plant Starter Concentrate (3-10-3)

Water Cycle model

Artist's clay 

Petri dishes

Clamp Lamp

Large aquarium or plastic shoeboxes with covers

Engineering Challenge

1.5 foot (.46 m) plastic tubing or PVC pipe with 1.5

inch (3.81 cm) or greater inner diameter

2 250-ml beakers

50-100 ml chlorinated water; this 200 ppm solution is

prepared by the teacher using Clorox:registered: germicidal

bleach; see instructions in the Procedure section

50-ml graduated cylinder

plastic spoon, to load sands and activated carbon

sieve, to separate small materials

lab safety gloves, one pair per student per day

lab book or notebook, one per student

safety goggles, enough so that each student in a

team can wear goggles while handling and testing

the chlorinated solution

Engineering Design Process and Water Filtration

Pre/Post-Test, two per student

Engineering Design Report Scoring Rubric, one per

student

Materials for the class:

activated carbon, either granules or pellets

filter media, such as cotton balls, fish filter media,

carbon infused filter media, 50 micron felt pad,

cheesecloth, cotton cloth or whatever is available

fine-grained sand

Clorox:registered: germicidal bleach; used to make a

chlorinated water solution; 2 teaspoons bleach per

gallon of water

pitcher or other container large enough to hold a

gallon of water, for preparing the chlorinated water

"free" and total low-level chlorine water quality test

strips, such as Hach's "Free & Total Chlorine Test

Strips, 0-10 mg/l," 50 strips, 0-10 ppm,

sanitizer-strength chlorine test strips, such as

LaMotte's "Cole-Parmer at

stopwatch