TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Air Pollution
Students are introduced to the concept of air quality by investigating the composition, properties, atmospheric layers and everyday importance of air. They explore the sources and effects of visible and invisible air pollution. By...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Air Pollution in the Pacific Northwest
Students are introduced to measuring and identifying sources of air pollution, as well as how environmental engineers try to control and limit the amount of air pollution. In Part 1, students are introduced to nitrogen dioxide as an air...
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Alberta Environment: Focus on Air Quality [Pdf]
This article outlines some of the threats to Alberta's air quality, what the provincial government is doing to control air quality, and what we as individuals can do to help.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Dirty Air?
This lesson introduces learners to the concepts of air pollution and technologies that have been developed by engineers to reduce air pollution. Students develop an understanding of visible air pollutants with an incomplete combustion...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Merry Go Round for Dirty Air
Students observe and discuss a cup and pencil model of a cyclone to better understand how this pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Project: Air Pollution:what Can You Do?
What practical steps can you take to reduce air pollution? Generate some ideas and design a brochure to communicate them.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Pollution Patrol
Students will work in teams to design and construct outdoor air pollution detectors from everyday items. They will then test the designs for presence of pollutants in the air and communicate their results to the class.
Other
Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety: Environmental Pollution Control
This study provides an orientation to the methods that are applied to control and prevent environmental pollution. The basic principles followed for eliminating negative impacts on the quality of water, air or land are discussed.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pollution Solutions
To develop an understanding of modern industrial technologies that clean up and prevent air pollution, young scholars build and observe a variety of simple models of engineering pollutant recovery methods: scrubber, electrostatic...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990
This resource compares the environmental benefits of pollution control to the costs incurred by industry, taxpayers, and consumers.
Other
U.s. Environmental Protection Agency: Smog City 2
An interactive air pollution simulator that allows students to control the smog in an imaginary city by adjusting several environmental factors.
Other
Air Info Now: Co Buildup in the City
Is an inversion layer trapping the pollution in CO City? Control the growth of CO city and the time of day, investigate air mixing and air temperature to see how pollution can get trapped.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Clean Air Act of 1963, 1970 and 1990
Discussion of the three sets of federal programs to establish air quality goals and to impose pollution control.
Kidport
Pollution
A short discussion of several different types of pollution and of the harm that it can do to the Earth. Includes a two-question reading-comprehension quiz.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Weather Watchers
Students are introduced to some essential meteorology concepts so they more fully understand the impact of meteorological activity on air pollution control and prevention. First, they develop an understanding of the magnitude and...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Fundamentals of Environmental Pollution and Control
A collection of video lectures from a fundamentals of environmental pollution and control course taught at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. The course teaches water pollutants, waste water treatment, soil acidity,...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Acid Rain
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.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Air Pollution
This image shows some of the air pollution problems caused by large smoke stacks before emission control standards were introduced.
Government of Alberta
Alberta Environment: Focus on Acid Decomposition [Pdf]
This article explains what acid depositions are and the serious effects they have on the environment, as well as what the Alberta government is doing to combat the problem.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change
A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the physical processes the control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate that is taught at Yale University. The course covers topics like clouds, rain, severe storms, regional...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Earth Days: Timeline:the Modern Environmental Movement
Trace the advance of the environmental movement from 1948 through the 1980s. Read about the legislation promoting a healthy environment passed under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
Other
Reducing Climate Change Emissions From Motor Vehicles [Pdf]
This site highlights new legislation in California which is designed to create new regulations that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by cars and trucks. The background to this proposal gives a summary of the manner in which...