| ACID RAIN PROJECT |
| PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES: Province of BC Ministry of Education IRP It is expected that students will: Write equations representing the formation of acidic solutions or basic solutions from their non-metal or metal oxides. Describe the pH conditions required for rain to be called acid rain. Relate the pH of normal rainfall to the presence of dissolved carbon dioxide. Describe sources of nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide. Describe environmental problems associated with acid rain. |
| ASSIGNMENT: Read the set of questions provided on the "Acid Rain Worksheet" as a starting point in your research. Locate references to "acid rain" using conventional print resources such as your handout notes, your textbooks, and other chemistry textbooks as well as periodicals or magazines. Conduct Internet research using search engines such as "Google", "Webcrawler", "Yahoo" etc to locate web sites that provide the appropriate information required to both meet the prescribed learning outcomes and address the questions on the "Acid Rain Worksheet". Arrange with two other persons (not necessarily in your Chemistry 12 class) to form, a project group consisting of three students. Collectively choose your project topic as one of the following: "Acid Rain caused by Sulphur Dioxide" or: "Acid Rain caused by Nitrogen Dioxide" Design a project that demonstrates that you have met the prescribed learning outcomes and answered the appropriate questions on the "Acid Rain Worksheet". Your project must not be in a conventional print essay format but rather must creatively display your competence in a form that can be easily demonstrated to and evaluated by other members of the Chemsitry 12 class. For example your project may incorporate familiar themes from television, children's books, current events, controversial environmental issues, or your current classs discussions and may involve role playing by real or fictional personalities from those media. You should obtain permission before using any of your teacher's names in your project. Permission to use my name is hereby granted. Permitted formats include: Poster, diorama, board game, calendar, experimental display, hanging display, computer presentation program A WARNING ABOUT PLAGIARISM: Projects that are merely a collection of photocopies from articles or books, or pasted web pages are unacceptable. All direct quotes from conventional print or electronic sources must be accompanied by formal citations: Print resources: Author, date of publication, title of item, book, or article, and publisher. Electronic resources: Author, date, title, url or email address, and search engine used to locate web site. EVALUATION: Students will evaluate the projects of other groups who researched acid rain caused by the oxide other than that which your own group researched. Projects will be set up for a"Demonstration Festival" for this purpose. While students should see the "Evaluation Rubric" for a detailed analysis of the evaluation formal marks will be approximately equally based not only on correctly addressing the questions on the "Acid Rain Worksheet" but also on the creativity, neatness, attractiveness, and originality of, and effort put into your project. |
| INTERNET RESOURCES: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Acid Rain Site: http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/acidrain/index.html Living Landscapes: http://royal.okanagan.bc.ca/mpidwirn/atmosphereandclimate/acidprecip.html National Aeronautical and Space Administration Acid Rain Site: http://k12s.phast.umas.edu/~nasa/acid.htm Acid Rain Guide: http://environment.about.com/newsissues/environment/msubar.htm |
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