Acid Rain Module Facilitator: Kim Everett, Ridgeland High School. Click on Kim Everett to hear her welcome you to the Acid Rain modle.   Ridgeland High School, Rossville, Georgia Fairyland Elementary School, Lookout Mountain, Georgia St. Petersburg School #2, St. Petersburg, Russia   Lesson 1: Make Acid Rain Lesson 4: Acid Rain Producers Conferencing Lesson 2: Weather Patterns Lesson 5: Effect on Plants   Lesson 3: Precipitation Monitoring Lesson 6: Rain that Ruins

About the Acid Rain Module In this Web-based module American and Russian students will explore an important global environmental problem which is called "acid rain." In the module you will learn how to make "acid rain," study the patterns of weather in North West Georgia and the North Western part of Russia, as well as find out how acid rain is produced. Of course, we are all interested in learning how to reduce acid rain. In this module you will do experiments, use the Internet to do research, as well as communicate with your peers in America and Russia to discuss what responsibility we have to solving this and other environmental problems. Schedule of Activities Activities Web Reminders Lesson 1. Post messages on the Eco-Connections Project Forum Lesson 2 and Lesson 3--Begin daily monitoring of the weather & acid rain at your school site. This will continue until the end of the module. You might divide your students into two teams---one team can be responsible for monitoring the weather (Lesson 2), and the other monitoring acid rain (Lesson 3) Post weather and acid rain data in the CLEO web site. Students will have to leave the Project web site and go to CLEO. Make sure that you go to the site first and register your class. Once this is done, then the students can post their data in one of the two data bases (one on Weather and the other on Acid Rain) NOTE: Students should try and post their data on a daily basis. Lesson 4 Post findings of the activity on the Eco-Connections Project Forum. Lesson 5. Students will need three days for the seed germination experiment. Prepare the experimental set up on day one, and have the students examine the results on day 4. Post observations and findings on the Eco-Connections Project Forum Lesson 6. You will need three days for the activity. On day one, the students should set up the "experiments," and then on day 3, have them observe and report on the results. Students should post thank you and final comments on the Eco-Connections Project Forum. Also have students complete the Acid Rain Assessment.