How Clean is the Water in Your Town?

by Thuan Dao, Colecia Hollie, April Lisa Olivarez, Joe Slapak

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Resources for “How Clean is the Water in Your Town?”

J.Slapak, C. Hollie, T. Dao, A. Olivarez

Scientific supplies:

10 saline water testing kits

10 algae water testing kits

35 pair goggles

Case 10 ml pipettes

Case pipette pumps

20 500 ml graduated cylinders

20 500ml volumetric flasks

10 200ml beakers

Case of test tubes and 12 racks

250 ml graduated cylinders (3x10)

3 microscopes

Microscope slides

Slide cover slips

Cork borers

5 balances

10 stopwatches

 

Expendable supplies:

Case non-latex gloves

1 bottle sodium chloride

1 bottle phenol red
1 bottle sodium hydroxide

50 LB plates

50 small raw pumpkins

1 package plastic cups (200 ml or greater)

8 packages graph paper

10 packages colored pencils

1 gallon distilled water

Paper towels
pennies (4x10)
detergent (1 Bottle)

Vegetable oil (1 Bottle)

10 pairing knives

3 packages multicolored markers

1 roll butcher paper

10 rulers

Plastic wrap

Cotton swabs

10 spatulas

10 sharpies

10 forceps

1 package of 12 pencils

40 glass eye droppers

Weighing paper

 

Machinery and supplies:

5 balances

Weighing paper

Ohmmeter

Ohmmeter control standards

(100, 290 and 500)

10 stopwatches

30 TI-83 Calculators

Overhead projector
package transparency film
3 projector markers
computers for Internet access

 

Internet Resources:

 

EPA National Primary Drinking Water Regulations

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_02/40cfr141_02.html

 

Partnership for Arid Land Stream Monitoring Project

http://www.pnl.gov/pals/lessonplans/streameco.html

 

EPA free video Resources

http://www.epa.gov/adopt/resources/video.html

 

LCRA water quality indicators

http://www.lcra.org/water/indicators.html

 

EPA Surf Your Watershed

http://www.epa.gov/surf

 

Water testing

http://www.lamotte.com

 

Highly Interactive Classrooms

http://hice.org/curric/water.html

 

Interactive Resources in Biochemistry

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/membrane_transport/membrane_transport.htm

Internet Resources (cont.)

 

NASA Explores

www.nasaexplore.com

 

Educators Reference Desk

http://eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlesson.cqi/virtual/lesson/science/biology/BIO0201.html

 

Annenberg Media

http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/algebra/workshop6/lessonplanl.html

 

Utopia Lesson Plans

http://utopia.utexas.edu/lesson_plans/koolvoord/inverse_functions_easily.html

 

WaterPro

http://www.labconco.com/pdf/h20_purification/waterpro_catalog.pdf

 

 

Grant Finances for “How Clean is the Water in Your Town?”

J. Slapak, C. Hollie, Thuan Dao, April Olivarez

 

 

Item                                                                                                    Cost


 

5 salinity water testing kits                                                                           260.00                                  

5 algae water testing kits                                                                             107.36

Case non-latex gloves                                                                                 108.75

35 pair goggles                                                                                           280.50

Case 10 ml pipettes                                                                                     113.00

Transfer pipettes (1000)                                                                              101.48

Microscope slides (3 gross)                                                                         170.58

Slide cover slips                                                                                          68.72

1 bottle sodium chloride                                                                               7.65

1 bottle phenol red                                                                                      150.20
1 bottle sodium hydroxide                                                                            5.90

Cork borers                                                                                               20.95

50 LB plates                                                                                              32.50

50 small raw pumpkins                                                                               125.00

1 package plastic cups (200 ml or greater)                                                   3.75

8 packages graph paper                                                                             12.72

10 packages colored pencils                                                                       22.90

1 gallon distilled water                                                                                1.50

12 rolls paper towels                                                                                  15.50
pennies (4x10)                                                                                           0.40
detergent (1 Bottle)                                                                                    5.25

Vegetable oil (1 bottle)                                                                               6.75

10 pairing knives                                                                                      33.50

3 packages multicolored markers                                                              11.97

1 roll butcher paper                                                                                  78.56

10 rulers                                                                                                   5.50

Plastic wrap                                                                                              2.39

Sterile cotton swabs                                                                                 26.36

10 spatulas                                                                                              22.90

10 sharpies                                                                                              6.39

10 plastic forceps                                                                                    10.00

4 packages pencils                                                                                   10.38

40 eye droppers                                                                                       19.80

 

Total requested:                                                                               1849.11