Earth Month Resources

By AACT on April 1, 2022

April is Earth Month! Explore resources from the AACT classroom resource library you can use to teach about the chemistry of our planet. Looking for more? You can find resources, events, and information about Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) on the ACS website.

High School
- Activity: How do Pollutants Affect our Oceans?
- Activity: Ingenious Video 4: How Science Is Fixing Recycling's Grossest Problem
- Activity: Ingenious Video 5: Making Shipping Greener with Hairy Ships
- Activity: Ingenious Video 8: Is the Answer to Overfishing… Algae?
- Activity: Ingenious Video 9: The World’s Smallest Water Treatment Plant Comes in a Packet
- Activity: Ingenious Video 10: Oversexed Moths are Ruining Apples for Everyone
- Activity: Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
- Activity: Nuclear Waste Challenge
- Activity: What Makes Water So Special?
- Activity: Investigating Acid Rain
- Activity: How Do We Clean Up An Oil Spill
- Lab: An Environmental Impact Study
- Lab: Homemade Hydrometers
- Lab: Determining the Composition of Bridge Straw Stalactites
- Lab: The Case of the Contaminated Well
- Lab: Mineral Investigation
- Lab: Seeing the Effects of Acid Rain
- Lab: Test Tube Geology
- Lesson Plan: Why Does Carbon Get Such a Bad Rap?
- Lesson Plan: The Ozone Layer
- Lesson Plan: Cleaning-up the Plastic Island
- Lesson Plan: Color Solar Power!
- Lesson Plan: Transition Metals Color the World
- Lesson Plan: Rustbusters! An Activity on Corrosion
- Lesson Plan: Biofuels of the Future
- Lesson Plan: Redesigning a Car for the Environment
- Lesson Plan: Fractional Distillation of Crude Oil
- Project: Wastewater Recovery
- Project: Sustainable Energy Evaluation
- Lab: Mineral Investigation
- Lab: Seeing the Effects of Acid Rain
- Lab: Test Tube Geology
- Video: Alternative Fuels
- Video: Catalytic Converters
Middle School
- Activity: Would You Drink it?
- Activity: Distillation in Survival Mode
- Lab: How Do Sinkholes Form?
- Activity: Achieving a Photosynthetic Balance
- Lab: The Chemical Process of Photosynthesis
- Lab: Effect of Salt Concentration on Plants
- Lab: Break It Down!
- Lab: Clean it Up!
- Lab: Greenhouse Gas Simulation
- Lab: Chemical Weathering in Geology
- Lesson Plan: The Ozone Layer
- Lesson Plan: Carbon, Carbon Everywhere
- Lesson Plan: The Building Blocks of Photosynthesis
Elementary School
- Activity: Sunshine for Life
- Activity: Is Air Matter?
- Activity: The Castaway!
- Demonstration: Global Warming in a Jar
- Lab: Reuse, Reduce and Recycle!
- Lab: Mini Terrarium
- Lab: Soil Permeability
- Lab: Settle that Soil
- Lab: The pH of Soil
- Lab: Chemical Weathering of Rocks
- Lesson Plan: Clean-Up Pond Pollution
- Lesson Plan: Now I Can Drink the Water!
- Lesson Plan: Environmental Problems
- Lesson Plan: Plant Chemistry