Air Quality - Outside Air Quality
Resources
Aerosols and the Environment
 | Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Games and Activities - Fact sheet - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Web site |
| Summary: The Consumer Aerosol Products Council offers education resources, background information and lessons to help increase awareness of our environment, ozone depletion and the affects of aerosols. |
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Air Module
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Experiment - Fact sheet - Glossary - List - Manual/Handbook - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Web site - Workshops |
| Summary: The AMBIENT air module contains segments of lessons based upon materials introduced in a news video. There is situations for activities, a community asthma quiz and key, school survey and glossary as well as a guide to air. AMBIENT provides a systemic approac... |
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Air Pollution, A True Book
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: BiblioResources (Books) - Classroom Materials - Experiment |
| Summary: Non-fiction
AuthorDonald, Rhonda Lucas. ISBN0-516-25998-9 AbstractThis book examines basic concepts of air pollution, problems, weather concerns and the process for cleaning the air. It offers some simple experiments to enhance ob... |
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Air Pollution: What's the Solution
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Experiment - Web site |
| Summary: Air Pollution: What’s the Solution? is an educational project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online real time data to guide student discovery of the science behind the causes and effects of ground level ozone. Core activities include The Ozone Betwee... |
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Air Quality Index
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Materials - Glossary - Web site |
| Summary: This is designer for young students and helps them understand clean and dirty air, air pollution health and air quality index. This is interactive with definitions. |
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Anti-Idling
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Fact sheet - Powerpoints, videos and virtual tours - Research - Web site |
| Summary: Unnecessary school bus idling pollutes the air, wastes fuel, and causes excess engine wear. Fortunately it’s easy to implement practices that reduce school bus idling. Topics found at this site include ways to save money and reduce pollution, actions to redu... |
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Clean Green Healthy Schools: An Environmental Health and Safety Activities Book for Teachers and Students (March 2003)
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Manual/Handbook |
| Summary: The goal of the Clean,Green and Healthy Schools Manual is to protect students and the school community's health and safety on campus and in the home. Every student has the right to attend a school whose environment, staff and training protects and nurtures ph... |
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Clean School Buses, Healthy Kids
| Type: Article/Report - Fact sheet - Research - Web site |
| Summary: Millions of our children ride to school each day on buses that are among the dirtiest vehicles on the road. The vast majority of the 442,000 school buses are aging diesel vehicles built to outmoded health and safety standards. These buses emit clouds of cancer... |
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Comparative Air Emissions of Wind and Other Fuels
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Fact sheet |
| Summary: Wind energy's most important environmental benefit is its lack of emissions of both air pollutants and greenhouse gases when compared with alternative methods of generating electricity. This fact sheet looks at carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxid... |
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Consumer Aerosol Products Science Class Challenge
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Materials |
| Summary: This site offers lessons, resources for teachers, aerosol facts, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and a science class challenge. Materials make teaching about ozone and atmosphere topics interesting and relevant. |
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Downwind Learning Science Using an EPA Exposure Model
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: The primary purpose of this project is to guide students regarding the
causes and possible results of air pollution. It introduces students to
the use of the IGEMS/ISC computer model, which has been developed by the
United States Environmental Protection Ag... |
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Eek, The Air Around Us
| Grade Level: Elementary |
| Summary: Learn more about Ozone, global warming, and ozone action days. EEK is Environmental Education for Kids. |
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EPA's Asthma Research Results Highlights
| Grade Level: High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Article/Report - Research |
| Summary: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a report, "EPA's Asthma Research Results Highlights," that describes recent advances in scientists' understanding of the factors which cause and exacerbate asthma and that documents ways to reduce the burden... |
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IDEM Air Quality Environmental Education Lesson
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary |
| Type: Classroom Lessons - Glossary - Web site |
| Summary: These lessons provide teacher preparation, presenter preparations, lessons and activities, extensions, standards, glossary of air quality and air pollution terms and additional resources. These are designed for K-3 and 4-6. |
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Individual Emissions Calculator
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Individual Emissions Calculators make it possible to determine how much greenhouse gas is generated as a result of public transportation vehicles, personal vehicles and it can be compared to bicycle, boat, train, foot and a few others. Searching through this... |
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Know Zone, The
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Games and Activities - Fact sheet |
| Summary: Visit California Air Basins for an interactive experience that explains air basins and helps to create a basic understand for smog. Lesson plans and activities are provided as well as additinal links and fact sheets. |
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National Overview Air Quality
| Grade Level: Pre-K thru Kindergarten - Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Checklist - Classroom Games and Activities - Classroom Lessons - Language Options - Web site |
| Summary: A real-time map provides current reports of air quality, ozone and particulate matter across the United States. Air quality basics are designed for health providers, students, teachers and weather forecasters. Activities are provided for "kids" ages 7-10 (als... |
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On the Trail of the Missing Ozone
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report |
| Summary: This book provides an introduciton into why we need the ozone layer, the causes of ozone depletion and some actions to correct the problem. It is available in several formats including text and pdf. Links within the text illustrate definitions. |
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Outdoor Air Pollution
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Checklist - Web site |
| Summary: With emphasis on asthma in children, this provides some basic information and actions to take to reduce irritations and asthma episodes. |
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Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act (1993)
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Article/Report - Glossary - List - Web site |
| Summary: Included at this site is a list of Common Air Pollutants, a Glossary, suggestions for Consumer Products, technology used for cleaning up air pollution and regulation information. |
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Search Your Community
| Grade Level: Elementary - Middle School/Junior High - High School - Post-Secondary |
| Type: Checklist - Classroom Materials - Database |
| Summary: By simply entering your zip code you can choose from four databases to obtain information about any community. Additional links to other databases provide envirofacts, air quality, watershed information and much more. |
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Toxic Tic-Tac-Toe
| Grade Level: High School |
| Type: Article/Report - Classroom Lessons - Classroom Materials |
| Summary: Students read an article about neurotoxicants in the environment and their effects on children. Then they assess what they have learned about the health effects, standards, and sources of these neurotoxicants by playing Toxic Tic-Tac-Toe. The link to the May... |
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What's Your Hypothesis?
| Grade Level: Middle School/Junior High - High School |
| Type: Classroom Lessons |
| Summary: Students develop an hypothesis about the connection between air pollution and cardiovascular disease and then test this hypothesis using statistical analysis. |
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