Air Pollution:

What's the Solution?

Using Real Time Data to Teach Air Pollution

Speaker
Air Quality Workshop for Teachers
Location
Date

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Project Goals
 Guide student discovery of the
causes and effects of ground-level
ozone pollution
 Engage students through the use of
online real time data gathered by
government air scientists

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 Project Developers
 Developed by the
Stevens Institute of
Technology, Center for

 
Improved Engineering
 
and Science Education                           
                                 
 Funded by the U.S. EPA
 Supervised by the
nonprofit Northeast
States for Coordinated
Air Use Management
and U.S. EPA

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Project Description
 Designed for Grades 6 - 9
 Correlates with National Science
Education Standards
 Meets the Excellence in
Environmental Education: Guidelines
for Learning (K-12) objectives

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Real Time Data
Technology can be a catalyst to improve K-12
education:
 Increases problem-solving and critical thinking
abilities
 Enables visualization of complex concepts or
phenomena
 Promotes interactivity
 Facilitates exploration of selected topics in greater
depth
 Provides opportunity for involvement in authentic
tasks 

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Project Description
 Use as a self-contained module or
integrate lessons into existing
curriculum
 Contains six core lessons and four
enrichment lessons
 Can be taught in as few as six class
sessions or expanded to 10 - 12
classes

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Project Description
 Can be accessed on the internet or
downloaded
 Uses colorful maps and animations
to show ozone formation throughout
the U.S.
 Is interactive, fun and engaging

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Skills and Knowledge Acquired

Students will be able to:

 Describe what ozone is, how it is
formed and what the health effects
are from breathing ground-level
ozone
 Create graphs to help visualize or
recognize trends

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Skills and Knowledge Acquired

 Predict when and where ground-level

ozone may occur
 Use knowledge gained to create
awareness about ground-level ozone and
the associated health effects

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Activities
Core Activities Enrichment Activities
 Ozone Between Us  Create Your Own
 Weather’s Role Investigation
 Tracking Ozone  People at Risk
 Will There Be Ozone  What is Your AQI?
Tomorrow?  Transport
 Smog City
 What Can You Do?

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Features of Each Activity
 Step-by-step procedures
 Student Worksheets
 Learn More Area for students
 Teacher Area – background
information
 Embedded links to relevant web sites

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 The Ozone Between Us
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/airproj/lessonscore1.htm
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The Ozone Between Us

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 Student
Worksheet

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 Weather’s Role
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/airproj/lessonscore2.html

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 Weather’s Role
New England Maps for August 13, 2002

 
                          

 
                          
                          
                                                                    

                          
                                                                                                                              

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 What Can You Do?
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/airproj/lessonscore6.html

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Air Pollution: What’s the Solution?

www.airnow.gov

Contact Information

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