Real World Examples of Chemistry - The Flint Water Crisis
Summary
This ACS ChemMatters Teachers Guide uses the real-world case of the Flint, Michigan water crisis to explore how chemistry concepts—particularly corrosion, redox reactions, water treatment processes, and public health chemistry—apply to municipal water systems. Students investigate how changes in water chemistry led to lead contamination and analyze the chemical principles behind the crisis.
There are supplemental activities in the guide.
Additional resources are added here including The Flint Water Crisis: Systemic Racism Through the Lens of Flint From the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, a video about systems thinking and the flint water crisis, an introductory video on environmental justice and an open access paper: "A Case Study of Environmental Injustice: The Failure in Flint."
There are supplemental activities in the guide.
Additional resources are added here including The Flint Water Crisis: Systemic Racism Through the Lens of Flint From the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, a video about systems thinking and the flint water crisis, an introductory video on environmental justice and an open access paper: "A Case Study of Environmental Injustice: The Failure in Flint."
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