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Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 Biology and Chemistry.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Kelly Munkittrick from the University of Calgary and Dr Maricor Arlos from the University of Waterloo in Canada. They are combining their expertise to monitor organic micropollutants in Canadian aquatic ecosystems and reduce their impacts.

• This resource also contains interviews with Kelly and Maricor, and offers an insight into careers in aquatic toxicology and environmental engineering. If your students have questions for Kelly or Maricor, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Kelly and Maricor’s research and challenges them to conduct an experiment to test the effect of micropollutants in water.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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