Toxic substances-Activities

	Published by Australian Academy of Science
Activities \| The bitter-sweet taste of toxic substances

Environment Australia
- Environmental protection in Australia: managing chemical risk – provides material on which to base discussions about risk assessment and management of chemicals.
Biotechnology Online (Biotechnology Australia)
- Oil-eating bacteria – students test the hypothesis that the oil-digesting abilities of soil bacteria vary according to amount of oil found in the natural environment.
Access Excellence (USA)
- Subsurface contamination of groundwater
  (Translation: 'Superfund site' means contaminated site.)
Newton's Apple (USA)
Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Toxicology and living systems – investigates in an introductory way how toxic chemicals affect biological systems.
- Finding the toxic dose – students expose Brassica rapa seeds to a range of concentrations of a toxicant.
- Toxicology and human health – examines the clinical effects of environmental toxicants on living organisms by collecting and analysing scientific data and identifying ways of detection and diagnosis.
New York Times Learning Network (USA)
- Isn't it ionic? – students find out more about the health hazards of organic solvents.

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Page updated February 2007.