Students will make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake, a tidal lake within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi, in April 2005, and measure water quality parameters in their model. Students will produce a timeline of the spill event with recommendations to the state's Department of Environmental Quality about how to prevent large-scale pollution spills like this in the future. A PowerPoint presentation, student materials, background information, and links to resources are included.

Concepts

estuaries, water pollution, water quality

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Additional Tags

chemical spill, noaa: estuaries 101 curriculum: human impact on estuaries: a terrible spill in grand bay nerr, pollution spill, water chemistry

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional