Clean it  up!

 

 

Harmful and long term effects of pollution are a raising concern that has forced governments to form hundreds of different organizations to study, plan, control or prevent industrial pollutions. Chemical spills are by far the most devastating causes of soil and water pollution in the word and the affects often remain for many centuries. 

 

When liquid chemicals enter the ground, they are practically out of control. They get to under ground waters and then travel in different directions for many miles. Removing contaminations caused by chemical spills is now a big profitable business for many environmental protection companies around the world.  In this project we will study about dealing with chemical spills and attempt to discover new or existing methods that can be used to cleanup the contaminations caused by a chemical spill.

 

Each team will receive up to four plants (or patches of grass) to simulate a spill and neutralization techniques. 

 

 

1.  With your team, decide on a household chemical to investigate, and collect all information on its hazardous status.

 

 First sumbission: Infographic on material data and story (create a story of how your spill came to happen).

 

 

 

 

2. With the information from your infographic,  decide on what other chemicals you are going to use to neutralize it.

 

3. Plan your experiment and submit your proposal, complete with rationale (why you are choosing each item). Your proposal needs to be turned in on time.

 

4. Your teacher will provide the plants, but you must provide all other materials.

 

5. We will simulate the spill on the assigned date and begin clean-up proceedures within 5 minutes. The rest is up to you to decide!. 

 

 

The Great Spill of 2015

In order to present your final work, you must develop a news cast that tracks the story of The Great Spill of 2015.

Include the story behind the spill, your infographic and the results obtained by scientists as they tried to clean it up. Conclude with a segment regarding what happened after the spill (based on your clean up efforts). Be creative and have fun!