Learning links

Pulp and Paper Chemistry/ American Chemical Society
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?
DOC=vc2%5C3wk%5Cwk3_pp.html

All About Paper/ Paper University
http://www.tappi.org/paperu

Paper & Wood Products/ American Forest & Paper Association
http://www.afandpa.org/

Project Learning Tree/ American Forest Foundation
http://www.plt.org/

Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty
Germaine M. Reed, University of Georgia Press, 1995

 

Make your own paper

Looking for a neat school project? Check the American Forest & Paper Association Web site and follow easy steps using facial tissues, starch and water to create your own sheet of hand-made paper.

http://www.afandpa.org/Content/NavigationMenu/
Educators_and_Students/Hands-on_Projects/Papermaking/
Papermaking.htm

Want to learn more about the chemistry and history of papermaking, plus how to make paper from straw or grass? This site is recommended for students in the fifth through tenth grades, with adult supervision. Check The Prairie Paper Project, University of Iowa.

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/prairiepaper.html

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