Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Some Effects of pH on Living Systems
 

Sherry K. Brooks and Nancy L. Pruitt

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1994, Volume 15

Abstract

The phenomenon of acid rain is familiar to most students, but the devastating effects are abstract to beginning students. In this exercise we simulated the pH of an acid lake in an aquarium in the lab, and allowed students to measure some of the effects of high acidity on aquatic organisms.

Keywords:  acid rain

University of Toronto (1993)