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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate problems with air pollution and how it affects the environment and health. They discover methods designed to combat air pollution. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a baseball game in which they answer questions related to air pollution. They answer true and false questions as well. They discuss the impact of air pollution on the environment. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 12th
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Students examine the issues surrounding air pollution. They discover how it affects peoples health and the government's regulations. They complete a word search activity to practice the vocabulary. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine two devices used to clean up the air waste stream before it enters the atmosphere. They construct and use a wet scrubber and an electrostatic precipitator, and answer discussion questions. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students study how industrial technology helps clean up and prevent air pollution. They role play as engineers to examine methods of engineering pollutant recovery methods such as scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, cyclones, and baghouses. They write environmental action campaign letters after determining the existence of global problems. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate how engineers design methods of removing particulate matter from industrial sources to minimize negative effects of air pollution. In small groups they design and construct a filter with the goal of removing pepper from an air stream without blocking more than fifty percent of the air. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students read two different articles which present the scientific issue of asthma, the causes, and the rising rates in our society. Students read for facts and examine whether or not the scientists have a political point of view. Students complete a worksheet about one article and have a discussion on the issue of air pollution's role in asthma. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students develop an action plan for investigating air pollution in the community. They plan how to determine what the local government is doing to enforce air pollution control laws and what local industry and other organizations are doing to control air pollution. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students study pollution abatement measures based on free market trading of pollution allowances. They make a series of decisions in order to comply with environmental regulations, as well as determine the price of a pollution allowance, and whether to implement pollution control measures. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students determine that air pollution control is caused by a combination of market incentives and government regulation. They realize that businesses exist to make profits for their owners and that governments make rules for individuals and businesses in order to establish minimum standards to protect society (human health and well being, ecology). Full Review »
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