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Teach About Mercury – 6 Complete Science Units

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Mercury Curriculum for Teachers

Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, Acadia National Park, offers the following free teaching curriculum.

Over the past couple of years Acadia Partners has developed a series of teacher guides that it uses in its Acadia Learning program. The program is designed to use scientific research conducted here at Acadia National Park as the foundation for citizen science programs in schools. The curriculum is designed to engage students not only in data collection and field work, but to also engage them in higher level science learning that includes inquiry and using data to answer questions. An equally important design goal is to engage students and teachers more closely in the work and stewardship of Acadia National Park.

Click below to access each of the teacher’s guides for 6 complete units

• Unit 1: An Introduction to Mercury in the Environment
• Unit 2: Food Webs: You are what you eat – and then some!
• Unit 3: Identifying the key Questions and Creating Hypotheses
• Unit 4: Sampling: There are different sampling guides for different kinds of projects. Teachers in the program are sampling aquatic invertebrates, fish, soil and leaf litter, and human hair.

• • Aquatic Invertebrates
  • Fish
  • Soil and Leaf Litter
  • Human Hair

• Unit 5: Data Analysis
• Unit 6: What Does It All Mean? Discussing and Presenting Results

Mercury in Maine watersheds, biota, and people: The Acadia Learning Project

A poster presentation that summarizes the outcomes of the 2008-2009 year of the Acadia Learning Project. One important result is our finding that results produced through sample collection by many students in many schools are within the ranges expected based on the scientific literature, suggesting that our methods and our use of students as part of the research effort are providing high quality data.