Unit 8

Unit 8-Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution

Three different ways to learn material for this chapter:

Link to Book-Chapters 20 & 21

Slides for Unit 8

Mrs. Campbell's Videos

Mr. Smedes' Videos

Week 24

8.1 Sources of Pollution

8.2 Human Impacts on Ecosystems

• Video-Coral Reef Bleaching

• Video-Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

• Video-Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

• Water Quality Lab

8.3 Endocrine Disruptors

Week 25

8.4 Human Impacts on Wetlands and Mangroves

• Video-Inside the Mangrove Forest

8.5 Eutrophication

• Oxygen Sag Curve Activity

8.6 Thermal Pollution

8.7 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

• Documentary-The Devil You Know

Week 26

8.8 Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification

• Bean Lab

8.14 Pollution and Human Health

• Video about Flint and Lead

8.15 Pathogens and Infectious Diseases

• Disease Chart

8.11 Sewage Treatment

• Wastewater Treatment Questions

Week 27

8.12 Lethal Dose 50%

8.13 Dose Response Curve

• Activity-Lethal Dose Toxicity

8.9 Solid Waste Disposal

• Video-What Happens at the Landfill

• Environmental Legislation

8.10 Waste Reduction Methods

• Video-The Life Cycle of a T-shirt

• Video-Fast Fashion

• Story of Solutions

• Recycle City