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2013
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and
How Does it Affect our World?
CorrConnect.org
An Outreach Product of US Department of Defense
Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight
10/2/2013
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
What is Corrosion and
How Does it Affect our World?
Key Concepts:
● Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their environment,
and most commonly affects metals.
●
Corrosion is a massive concern for our world’s infrastructure, and focus needs to be
turned to controlling the current issues at hand and looking ahead to prevent the
concerns of the future.
●
A career as a Corrosion Engineer is one that not only pays very well, contributes to
frequent travel, and ensures a consistent amount of work, but is a vital role to be filled in
the coming generation.
Summary:
Utilizing any available district sanctioned PCs, Macs, or mobile devices, Teachers will lead their
students through the CorrSim II simulation, sponsored by the Department of Defense Office of
Corrosion Policy and Oversight.
Teachers will be able to utilize CorrSim II to help them teach the fundamentals of Corrosion as a
scientific process, as a threat to our environment and infrastructure, and as an intriguing career
path.
The simulation is a mixture of budget management and city planning gameplay mechanics,
taking place across real world locations in the United States, digitally crafted to display
Corrosion and why it’s a prevalent concern.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 1
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
Objective:
Students will be able to explain what Corrosion is and the changes it goes through as it
deteriorates everyday objects and structures. From this basis students will learn how to
ongoing deterioration can be contained as well as how to prevent it from happening in the
future. The CorrSim II Lesson Plan will also raise awareness of the career opportunities
available to those who seek Corrosion Engineers.
Learning Objectives:
●
Learn the basics of corrosion and ways to control and prevent it.
● Observe the changes in objects affected by corrosion over time.
● Understand the factors that affect the process of corrosion.
● Discover examples of corrosion in the everyday environment.
● Understand the importance of corrosion prevention and control.
Evaluation and Certification:
Within the simulation, cities are affected by the harmful advances of Corrosion. As Students
budget their funds and plan what needs to be done for each structure, their cities will be ranked
on a scale of Great, Good, or Destroyed as the fiscal years pass by. Challenge your students to
see who can manage their cities to last the longest, or better yet, continually prosper.
Every student who experiences the CorrSim II Simulator will have the option of printing out an
official Corrosion Cadet Certificate of completion from the Department of Defense Office of
Corrosion Policy and Oversight.
Materials for the Demonstration
●
●
“A Brief Introduction to Corrosion and It’s Control” Information Sheet and Powerpoint
CorrSim II enabled PCs, Macs, or Mobile Devices
Materials for Each Student
●
●
A copy of the “A Brief Introduction to Corrosion and It’s Control” Information Sheet
Enough devices to pair students into groups of three (if possible).
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 2
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
Introduce
Before beginning with the CorrSim II Simulator, walk your students through an
introduction of Corrosion using the “A Brief Introduction to Corrosion and It’s Control”
which you gave out to each student and the accompanying Powerpoint presentation.
The Key elements to make clear during this introduction are:
● Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their
environment.
● The term corrosion is sometimes also applied to the degradation of plastics,
concrete and wood, but generally refers to metals.
●
There are three main components necessary for corrosion to occur: 1. Metal
(example: iron) 2. Oxygen (usually from the atmosphere) 3. An electrolyte
(usually water).
Give examples of some of the largest Corrosion related disasters. Examples:
●
●
●
●
●
●
Guadalajara Sewer Explosion
Boeing 747 Freighter Crash
Corroding Tanker Erika
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Prudhoe Bay Oil Spill
Flixborough Disaster
Illuminate merits involved with pursuing a career in Corrosion Engineering. Examples:
●
●
●
●
High Salary, I, II
High Demand
Career Diversity
More information
Engage
Have your students play through the tutorial elements of CorrSim II, which constitute the
simulation’s first 10-15 minutes.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 3
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
At the end of the tutorial, CorrSim II will quiz your students on what they have learned.
Use the results of this quiz to curate a Q&A discussion in the following phase.
Explain
After your students have played through the tutorial of CorrSim II and completed the
quiz, pull them away from the simulator and review some of the primary concepts
presented to them during those first 10-15 minutes. A clear understanding of these
elements will assist in their comprehension of the CorrSim II Lesson Plan’s next phase.
If you’d like, allow this moment of the lesson plan to turn into a discussion. One of the
primary goals of CorrSim II and it’s Lesson Plan is to engage and interest students in
the field of Corrosion. Feed into any interest that has arisen from the tutorial, and
encourage excitement at entering into the fun gameplay mechanics that await them
during the rest of CorrSim II.
By this point, students should now be more comfortable with the following information:
Key Concepts:
● Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their
environment.
●
The term corrosion is sometimes also applied to the degradation of plastics,
concrete and wood, but generally refers to metals.
●
There are three main components necessary for corrosion to occur: 1. Metal
(example: iron) 2. Oxygen (usually from the atmosphere) 3. An electrolyte
(usually water).
Areas Affected by Corrosion:
● Infrastructure: including buildings, highway bridges, gas and liquid transmission
pipelines, waterways and ports, hazardous materials storage, airports, and
railroads.
● Utilities: including gas distribution, drinking water and sewer systems, electrical
utilities, and telecommunications.
● Transportation: including motor vehicles, ships, aircraft, railroad cards, and
hazardous materials transport.
● Production and Manufacturing: including oil and gas exploration and production,
mining, petroleum refining, chemical production, petrochemical production
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 4
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2013
pharmaceutical production, pulp and paper, agricultural production, food
processing, electronics, and home appliances.
● Government: including defense equipments and nuclear waste storage.
Explore
Now, open your students up to play through CorrSim II. This will begin the gameplay
process of managing a government funded budget in order to maintain a selection of
U.S Cities infrastructure. Your students can begin exploring the cities featured in
CorrSim II and their respective needs against the threats of corrosion.
Monitor them as they select both proper and currently affordable coatings to protect
their structures, thinking forward to the coming years and the rejuvenated budgets
they’ll receive, and crafting plans to make sure their cities survive and thrive.
As they play, monitor their actions and motions throughout the game.
Feel free to engage your students with further comments and discussion on an
individual basis.
You may chose to use this sort of discussion as a part of your lesson’s end, or
incorporate it into this phase of CorrSim II exploration.
Here are some examples of further aspects of Corrosion you can share with them:
Cost of Corrosion:
● Over the past 22 years, the U.S. has suffered 52 major weather-related disasters
incurring total normalized losses of more than $380 billion, which averages to
$17 billion annually and with the direct corrosion costs of $276 billion annually.
● Direct Loss: Material cost, maintenance cost, over-design etc.
● Indirect Loss: Plant shutdown & loss of production, contamination of products,
loss of valuable products due to leakage, liability in accidents, hazards etc.
Corrosion Prevention and Control:
● Corrosion can be prevented through using multiple products and techniques
including painting, sacrificial anodes, cathodic protection (electroplating), and
natural products of corrosion itself.
● Painting: The paint forms a barrier between the metal and the environment,
namely moisture.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 5
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
● Sacrificial anodes: Utilization of a metal lower on the Galvanic Series to be
attacked first, instead of the metal in use. The sacrificial anode can be replaced
as needed.
● Passivation: Some corrosion processes will create solid metal compounds that
will coat the initial site of corrosion and prevent further corrosion at that site.
● Cathodic Protection: The material ( iron ) is coated with a thin layer of zinc which
is acting as a sacrificial layer for the iron. Instead of the the iron corroding, the Zn
acts as the sacrificial anode in the cell and protects the iron.
Extend
Encourage your students to follow through with their curiosity at home. Be sure to end
your lesson by directing your students toward other Corrosion resources funded by the
Department of Defense’s Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight.
Further resources:
● CorrConnect
● Corrosion at home and other Simulations
Also, remind your students that since they played CorrSim II, they can receive their official
Corrsim II Certificate of Completion!
The certificate will be sent to the player’s email address after successfully completing the game.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 6
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and
How Does it Affect our World?
CorrConnect.org
An Outreach Product of US Department of Defense
Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight
10/2/2013
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
What is Corrosion and
How Does it Affect our World?
Key Concepts:
● Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their environment,
and most commonly affects metals.
●
Corrosion is a massive concern for our world’s infrastructure, and focus needs to be
turned to controlling the current issues at hand and looking ahead to prevent the
concerns of the future.
●
A career as a Corrosion Engineer is one that not only pays very well, contributes to
frequent travel, and ensures a consistent amount of work, but is a vital role to be filled in
the coming generation.
Summary:
Utilizing any available district sanctioned PCs, Macs, or mobile devices, Teachers will lead their
students through the CorrSim II simulation, sponsored by the Department of Defense Office of
Corrosion Policy and Oversight.
Teachers will be able to utilize CorrSim II to help them teach the fundamentals of Corrosion as a
scientific process, as a threat to our environment and infrastructure, and as an intriguing career
path.
The simulation is a mixture of budget management and city planning gameplay mechanics,
taking place across real world locations in the United States, digitally crafted to display
Corrosion and why it’s a prevalent concern.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 1
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
Objective:
Students will be able to explain what Corrosion is and the changes it goes through as it
deteriorates everyday objects and structures. From this basis students will learn how to
ongoing deterioration can be contained as well as how to prevent it from happening in the
future. The CorrSim II Lesson Plan will also raise awareness of the career opportunities
available to those who seek Corrosion Engineers.
Learning Objectives:
●
Learn the basics of corrosion and ways to control and prevent it.
● Observe the changes in objects affected by corrosion over time.
● Understand the factors that affect the process of corrosion.
● Discover examples of corrosion in the everyday environment.
● Understand the importance of corrosion prevention and control.
Evaluation and Certification:
Within the simulation, cities are affected by the harmful advances of Corrosion. As Students
budget their funds and plan what needs to be done for each structure, their cities will be ranked
on a scale of Great, Good, or Destroyed as the fiscal years pass by. Challenge your students to
see who can manage their cities to last the longest, or better yet, continually prosper.
Every student who experiences the CorrSim II Simulator will have the option of printing out an
official Corrosion Cadet Certificate of completion from the Department of Defense Office of
Corrosion Policy and Oversight.
Materials for the Demonstration
●
●
“A Brief Introduction to Corrosion and It’s Control” Information Sheet and Powerpoint
CorrSim II enabled PCs, Macs, or Mobile Devices
Materials for Each Student
●
●
A copy of the “A Brief Introduction to Corrosion and It’s Control” Information Sheet
Enough devices to pair students into groups of three (if possible).
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 2
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
Introduce
Before beginning with the CorrSim II Simulator, walk your students through an
introduction of Corrosion using the “A Brief Introduction to Corrosion and It’s Control”
which you gave out to each student and the accompanying Powerpoint presentation.
The Key elements to make clear during this introduction are:
● Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their
environment.
● The term corrosion is sometimes also applied to the degradation of plastics,
concrete and wood, but generally refers to metals.
●
There are three main components necessary for corrosion to occur: 1. Metal
(example: iron) 2. Oxygen (usually from the atmosphere) 3. An electrolyte
(usually water).
Give examples of some of the largest Corrosion related disasters. Examples:
●
●
●
●
●
●
Guadalajara Sewer Explosion
Boeing 747 Freighter Crash
Corroding Tanker Erika
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Prudhoe Bay Oil Spill
Flixborough Disaster
Illuminate merits involved with pursuing a career in Corrosion Engineering. Examples:
●
●
●
●
High Salary, I, II
High Demand
Career Diversity
More information
Engage
Have your students play through the tutorial elements of CorrSim II, which constitute the
simulation’s first 10-15 minutes.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 3
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
At the end of the tutorial, CorrSim II will quiz your students on what they have learned.
Use the results of this quiz to curate a Q&A discussion in the following phase.
Explain
After your students have played through the tutorial of CorrSim II and completed the
quiz, pull them away from the simulator and review some of the primary concepts
presented to them during those first 10-15 minutes. A clear understanding of these
elements will assist in their comprehension of the CorrSim II Lesson Plan’s next phase.
If you’d like, allow this moment of the lesson plan to turn into a discussion. One of the
primary goals of CorrSim II and it’s Lesson Plan is to engage and interest students in
the field of Corrosion. Feed into any interest that has arisen from the tutorial, and
encourage excitement at entering into the fun gameplay mechanics that await them
during the rest of CorrSim II.
By this point, students should now be more comfortable with the following information:
Key Concepts:
● Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their
environment.
●
The term corrosion is sometimes also applied to the degradation of plastics,
concrete and wood, but generally refers to metals.
●
There are three main components necessary for corrosion to occur: 1. Metal
(example: iron) 2. Oxygen (usually from the atmosphere) 3. An electrolyte
(usually water).
Areas Affected by Corrosion:
● Infrastructure: including buildings, highway bridges, gas and liquid transmission
pipelines, waterways and ports, hazardous materials storage, airports, and
railroads.
● Utilities: including gas distribution, drinking water and sewer systems, electrical
utilities, and telecommunications.
● Transportation: including motor vehicles, ships, aircraft, railroad cards, and
hazardous materials transport.
● Production and Manufacturing: including oil and gas exploration and production,
mining, petroleum refining, chemical production, petrochemical production
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 4
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
pharmaceutical production, pulp and paper, agricultural production, food
processing, electronics, and home appliances.
● Government: including defense equipments and nuclear waste storage.
Explore
Now, open your students up to play through CorrSim II. This will begin the gameplay
process of managing a government funded budget in order to maintain a selection of
U.S Cities infrastructure. Your students can begin exploring the cities featured in
CorrSim II and their respective needs against the threats of corrosion.
Monitor them as they select both proper and currently affordable coatings to protect
their structures, thinking forward to the coming years and the rejuvenated budgets
they’ll receive, and crafting plans to make sure their cities survive and thrive.
As they play, monitor their actions and motions throughout the game.
Feel free to engage your students with further comments and discussion on an
individual basis.
You may chose to use this sort of discussion as a part of your lesson’s end, or
incorporate it into this phase of CorrSim II exploration.
Here are some examples of further aspects of Corrosion you can share with them:
Cost of Corrosion:
● Over the past 22 years, the U.S. has suffered 52 major weather-related disasters
incurring total normalized losses of more than $380 billion, which averages to
$17 billion annually and with the direct corrosion costs of $276 billion annually.
● Direct Loss: Material cost, maintenance cost, over-design etc.
● Indirect Loss: Plant shutdown & loss of production, contamination of products,
loss of valuable products due to leakage, liability in accidents, hazards etc.
Corrosion Prevention and Control:
● Corrosion can be prevented through using multiple products and techniques
including painting, sacrificial anodes, cathodic protection (electroplating), and
natural products of corrosion itself.
● Painting: The paint forms a barrier between the metal and the environment,
namely moisture.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 5
Lesson Plan: What is Corrosion and How Does it
2013
● Sacrificial anodes: Utilization of a metal lower on the Galvanic Series to be
attacked first, instead of the metal in use. The sacrificial anode can be replaced
as needed.
● Passivation: Some corrosion processes will create solid metal compounds that
will coat the initial site of corrosion and prevent further corrosion at that site.
● Cathodic Protection: The material ( iron ) is coated with a thin layer of zinc which
is acting as a sacrificial layer for the iron. Instead of the the iron corroding, the Zn
acts as the sacrificial anode in the cell and protects the iron.
Extend
Encourage your students to follow through with their curiosity at home. Be sure to end
your lesson by directing your students toward other Corrosion resources funded by the
Department of Defense’s Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight.
Further resources:
● CorrConnect
● Corrosion at home and other Simulations
Also, remind your students that since they played CorrSim II, they can receive their official
Corrsim II Certificate of Completion!
The certificate will be sent to the player’s email address after successfully completing the game.
http:www.corrconnect.org/simulations 6
