Clean It Up!

 

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

- Create a print news story of how your spill came to happen.

 

2. With the information from your infographic,  decide on what chemicals or techniques you will use to clean up the mess. Base your selection on hard science. "I think that ___ will absorb it" is not a viable answer. What specific properties of your proposal are at play. "Try before you buy!"

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Second submission:

- Response from the EPA to the spill. Include materials research, and even any preliminary experiments you may do to verify that your solution is plausible.

- Print news story or article recounting the efforts from the EPA.

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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!