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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Health, Pollution, and Safety: Why Should We Care?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the impact of reducing the carbon dioxide emissions. They identify ways alternative fuels can lessen the effect of emissions on communities. Working in teams they conduct research from various community and Internet...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Water in Our Lives: Kit Practice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine a local water source using testing kits to determine water qualitiy. They identify the pollutants and contaminants in each sample. They determine if samples fall within an acceptable range for drinking water.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Quality

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students conduct experiments to study the quality of water. They examine how pollutants get into and affect the water supply in this unit.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Tale of Two Reactors

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders role-play as members of the food chain. Sticky tables acting as polluting factors are introduced and members of different trophic levels suffer varying degrees of damage due to those pollutants.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Quality and Temperature

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners are led through three activities to explore the effect of temperature fluctuations on the growth and survival of aquatic plants, clams, and shrimp eggs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Air Pollution and Health

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Internet research to become familiar with the environmental and health effects of the six criteria pollutants identified by the U.S. EPA, along with the greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding and Measuring What You Can't See

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners determine how scientists measure pollutants in food and the environment. Students discover how scientists remove one material based on its physical properties. Learners figure out how much of a pollutant is present after...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Air, Atmosphere, and Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixteen essential questions lead student learning about Earth's atmosphere and global warming as they have to do with global climate change.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Atmospheric Changes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson unit on the effects of fossil fuel burning on the atmosphere. Includes particulates with good materials balance.
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Interactive
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Envirofacts Data Warehouse

For Students 9th - 10th
Using zip codes, this site allows students to locate businesses in their communities that are producing wastes.
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Air, Atmosphere and Living Systems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This unit includes a complete set of science lessons that enable students to creatively explore basic concepts related to air and the atmosphere, air quality, and associated issues, such as allergens in the places we live, study and work.
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity allows students to make a simple model food chain and observe how toxic chemicals can become concentrated in the bodies of consumers at the top of the chain.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Toxicology and Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate hazards to human health that are found where we live, work, and play, and begin to understand the risk analysis and system of evaluation that was developed to protect us from potential environmental dangers.
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Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Acid Rain

For Students K - 1st
What are the causes and effects of acid rain in our environment? To learn more about this serious environmental issue check out this website. Contains a page with several acid rain activities for students.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Hiding in the Air?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students develop an understanding of the effects of invisible air pollutants with a rubber band and hanger air test and a bean plant experiment. They also learn about methods of reducing invisible air pollutants.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environmental Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit, students explore the various roles of environmental engineers, including: environmental cleanup, water quality, groundwater resources, surface water and groundwater flow, water contamination, waste disposal and air...
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Graphic
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Natural Hazards: Dust, Smoke, and Haze

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA's Earth Observatory offers photographs of dust, smoke, and haze throughout the world. Learn how these pollutants can be hazardous to our Earth.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Dimming the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource provides evidence that human air pollution is limiting the amount of sunlight that is reaching the earth's surface.
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Handout
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Criteria Air Pollutants

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the six major air pollutants. In-depth descriptions of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, particulates, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and lead are provided.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sensing Air Pollution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about electricity and air pollution while building devices to measure volatile organic compounds (VOC) by attaching VOC sensors to prototyping boards. In the second part of the activity, students evaluate the impact of...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Water, Soil, and Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the fundamental importance of water, soil, and agriculture in sustaining the human standard of living; and the heavy toll that current agricultural practices take on water and soil resources.
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Unit Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Size, Shape and Health Effects of Particulates

For Students 9th - 10th
How does particulate pollution affect people with breathing disorders? Real time air quality data is provided for you to assess your state. Using this data you can determine who might be at risk in your particular area.
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Graphic
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Global Maps: Aerosol Optical Depth

For Students 9th - 10th
View Earth's aerosol optical depth by watching a global map evolve from January 2005 to November 2008. Learn about aerosol amounts such as volcanic ash, sea salt, smoke, and other pollutants.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Water Pollution Graphing: Bugs Don't Bug Me

For Teachers K
Activity shows the link between land use activities within a watershed and water quality.