Work The Web

What is being done to reduce the amounts of pollutants in vehicle exhausts?

Environmental Center, Car Exhaust - Health Effects, Environmed Research Inc.
For the teacher: This well-documented site looks at a short list of the likely pathogens in car exhaust: carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, suspended particles, benzene, formaldehyde, etc.

Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada
For the teacher: The Office of Energy Efficiency has mounted a very informative site on how to save energy at home, at work, and on the road. Read the State of Energy Efficiency in Canada 2000 at this site. Helpful tools and information to increase the energy efficiency of homes, vehicles, businesses, institutions, and governments are also given.

Articles on vehicle emissions and various actions to reduce, FuelMaker
For the teacher: This archive is current and contains such articles as switching Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's car to natural gas.

Speaking Notes for the Hon. Christine Stewart, M.P., Minister of the Environment, News conference to announce new Low Sulfur Gasoline Regulations, June 7, 1999, Environment Canada
For the teacher: This site contains the minister's announcement on new regulations for sulfur in gasoline.

GreenOntario, Provincial Strategy: Smog
For the teacher: This site gives a good overview on current anti-smog strategies, major activities, and what individuals can do.

Air Programme, Pollution Probe
For the teacher: Pollution Probe presents information on smog and its harmful effects, how Pollution Probe's Clean Air Campaign is fighting to reduce air pollution and a description of Ontario's Drive Clean vehicle inspection and maintenance program.

Department of the Environment, Federal Agenda on Cleaner Vehicles, Engines and Fuels
For the teacher: This fact sheet presents an overview of the environmental impact of vehicle use; information on federal government objectives related to fleet management; options for reducing vehicle use; tips to improve driving and maintenance practices; alternative fuels for vehicles; etc.

Environmental Implications of the Automobile (SOE Fact Sheet No. 93-1), Canadian Petroleum Products Institute/Environment Canada
For the teacher: This site presents information on the car and the economy, its impact on the environment, energy consumption, etc.

How car engines work, How Stuff Works
For the teacher: This is a complete illustrated guide to the workings of a car engine.

Cleaner Burning Gasoline, Specialty Equipment Market Association
For the teacher: This site is a FAQ list on cleaner gasoline.

Some people think that gases have no mass or even that gases have negative mass. They look at hot air balloons rising into the air and say that the gas inside a balloon makes it weigh less. How can you explain this observation?

How Helium Balloons Work, How Stuff Works
For the teacher: The complete illustrated guide to the workings of a helium balloon.

Follow the links to Web sites that show how to balance chemical equations. Choose a reaction and show it as a word equation, a skeleton equation, and as a balanced equation.

Ohio State University: Balancing Chemical Equations
For the teacher: This is a succinct page on balancing chemical equations.

Chemical Equations
For the teacher: This is a succinct page on balancing chemical equations.

Hints for balancing chemical equations, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
For the teacher: Four simple steps for balancing equations are given on this page.

Balancing Chemical Equations, The Learning Centre
For the teacher: This is an excellent page that proceeds step-by-step to show how balancing is done.

Where do the chemicals used in matches come from? Are there any significant environmental concerns around match production? Research and report on match production.

Sulfur Free Matches one less contribution to acid rain, Redheads, Swedish Match Company
For the teacher: This is a fascinating site mounted by the Redheads match company. The student can explore the history, manufacturing, safety standards of match making at this site.

Investigate examples of synthesis and decomposition reactions. Report on three reactions, including balanced chemical equations.

Organic Syntheses, Vanier College, Quebec
For the teacher: This page contains examples (written in formulas) including synthesis of alkanes, synthesis and reactions of alkyl halides, etc.

Experiment: Zinc and Hydrochloric Acid — A Synthesis Reaction
For the teacher: This page is presented as a lab procedure.

Unimolecular Decompositon Reactions, N,N-Dimethyl,N-Ethyl Amine Oxide
For the teacher: This is a high-level chemistry site. It contains the results of this reaction in animation and in text form.

First Order Composite Reactions, Bishops University, Quebec
For the teacher: The decomposition reaction of N2O5 into NO2 and O2 is replayed step-by-step.

Burning Candy, Meredith Ball, Queen's University
For the teacher: This site contains a demonstration that illustrates the interconversion of energy (from stored energy to light energy) in a dramatic and memorable way. This demo can also be used as an example of a combustion reaction and/or to illustrate a decomposition reaction that looks like a change of state.

Classify the types of reactions that occur in fuel cells.

What is a Fuel Cell?, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems
For the teacher: This site gives the basic information on fuel cells, its applications, types, the electrochemistry and thermodynamics involved, and the economics of fuel cells.

Fuel Cell Promises Clean Energy, Natural Life magazine
For the teacher: This article looks at fuel cells from an environmental viewpoint.

FAQ on Fuel Cells, Ballard Power Systems
For the teacher: This FAQ gives basic fuel cell information. The student can explore this company site further to understand some of the practical applications of this technology.

Fuel Cell Science and technology links, Electro-Chem-Technic, Great Britain
For the teacher: This site contains a number of links explaining fuel cell technology, as well as other links to fuel cell applications.

One way that displacement reactions may be applied is in the process of refining metal such as aluminum and copper from their minerals. Find out more about displacement reactions in refining metals.

The Aluminium Industry, Industry Canada
For the teacher: This page gives an overview of the history of the industry, its impact on the economy, and its affect on the environment.

A new hydrometallurgical copper refining process, Cominco Engineering Services Ltd.
and how it works
For the teacher: This site explores a new process to refine copper. Basic information is presented on how the process works, accompanied by an easy to understand schematic.

Explore the effects of pollution on the environment.

Cars:
Environmental Center, Car Exhaust - Health Effects, Environmed Research Inc.
For the teacher: This is a well documented site that looks at a short list of the likely pathogens in car exhaust: carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, suspended particles, benzene, formaldehyde, etc.

Packaging:
Packaging and the environment, Environment Canada, articles
For the teacher: These series of articles discuss different facets of packaging and recycling in Canada.

The Green Shopper Program, Pitch-in Canada
For the teacher: This site discribes the problem of product packaging on the environment.

Packaging and Recycling links, Pitch-in Canada
For the teacher: These are very useful links to understand recycling and how to counter packaging waste.

Fossil Fuels:
Graph of energy consumption of different nations, World Resources
and energy consumption by source
For the teacher: Students can compare Canada to the rest of the world on energy consumption and the sources used, such as fossil fuels.

Climate Change : Fossil Fuels, David Suzuki Foundation
For the teacher: This site, supported by the famous Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, discusses how burning fossil fuels is destabilizing our climate and polluting the air.

Climate Change: Economic Risks & Opportunities, David Suzuki Foundation
For the teacher: This site, supported by the famous Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, discusses how climate change will affect the economy. It looks at the question of how to maintain the positive trends or reverse the negative trends concerning air quality, drinking water quality, solid waste management, etc.

Dealing with Pollution:
City of Vancouver environmental agenda
For the teacher: This site presents Vancouver's environmental strategies.

Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada
For the teacher: The Office of Energy Efficiency has mounted a very informative site on how to save energy at home, at work and on the road. Read the State of Energy Efficiency in Canada 2000 at this site. Helpful tools and information to increase the energy efficiency of homes, vehicles, businesses, institutions and governments are also given.

Environmental Choice Program home page
For the teacher: The Environmental Choice Program is Canada's only national and comprehensive ecolabelling program. It certifies products and services that have proven to have less of an impact on the environment because of how they are manufactured, consumed or disposed of. The site lists "green" appliances, cleaning products, paints, plastics, construction, etc. and shows how they conform to environmental standards.

Ontario Ministry of the Environment
For the teacher: This site gives an overview on what the province is doing for the environment.

Friends of the Earth home page
For the teacher: This environmental organization offers a number of fact sheets and information on biosafety, clean air, recycling, ozone protection, sustainable forestry, etc.

Chemicals (drugs or medicines) that react to each other or to certain medical conditions in a harmful way are called "contraindicated". Report on two contraindicated conditions.

Food & Drug Interactions, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
For the teacher: This site contains a huge list of foods, drugs, and medicines that might interact with each other.

Herbal Remedies: Adverse Effects and Drug, American Family Physician
For the teacher: This site presents a very good overview of reactions between common drugs and herbal preparations.

Drug-drug interactions: How scared should we be?, Lori E. Shapiro, MD; Neil H. Shear, MD, Canadian Medical Association Journal
For the teacher: This site presents a general overview of the problem.

Information about pharmacy careers:
Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
and
Professional Development page
For the teacher: This is a general site about the society as well as a page that presents a few pharmacists and their descriptions of professional development.

Role of the Pharmacist in the Health Care System, World Health Organization
For the teacher: This site presents a good overview on what pharmacists do.

Training for pharmacists, SchoolFinder
For the teacher: This site describes what a pharmacist does, how many are employed in North America, university degrees needed, etc.