TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sensing Air Pollution
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...
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...
Other
Airnow Ozone: Current Aqi
This map shows current air quality index. Select a region on map to view an animation of ozone levels at different times throughout the day. Very interesting.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Air Pollution and Illness
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how air pollution affects human health.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How air pollution affects human health.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Outdoor Air Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Air pollution is due to chemical substances and particles released into the air mainly by human actions. This pollution affects entire ecosystems around the world....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Air Pollution and Climate Change
Through this interactive module, students learn that the atmosphere is so much more than air, its complex role on Earth should be explored, and its quality carefully monitored and protected.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Project:s Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
This comprehensive site on air pollutions, sponsored by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, includes worksheets, knowledge-assesment tools, and detailed instructions.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Air Pollution
What do smog, acid rain, carbon monoxide, fossil fuel exhausts, and tropospheric ozone have in common? They are all examples of air pollution. This article describes the causes and effects of air pollution.
Other
Epa: Air Now
"Daily, regional ozone maps, health facts, real-time data by state, and ozone forecasts. Past ozone maps are available in Map Archives. Reducing air pollution tips."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Air Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the causes and effects of air pollution.
Other
Just for Kids: Air
Pennsylvania's DEP presents this site on air pollution. Learn about ozone, particulate matter, and the air quality index.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Mobile Source Air Toxics
Links to fact sheets, articles, and educational tools on air pollution.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Effects of Air Pollution on the Environment
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How pollution damages the environment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Effects of Air Pollution on the Environment
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How pollution damages the environment.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: The Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act
This 27-page booklet explains the Clean Air Act using everyday English.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Environment Module: Uv Menace
This site provides information and activities for classes to learn more about ozone depletion and UV radiation.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Take a Deep Breath on the Appalachian Trail
A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. They will examine spreadsheet data on air quality in Great Smoky National Parks, and solve problems using ratio and proportion. The exercises will help them to...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Air Trends
Each year EPA tracks the levels of pollutants in the air and how much of each pollutant (or the pollutants that form them) is emitted from various pollution sources. The Agency looks at these numbers year after year to see how the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Ozone Depletion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how the ozone hole forms and what are its effects.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Ozone Destruction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How banning CFCs helped protect the ozone layer.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Ozone Depletion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how the ozone hole forms; what are its effects.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Smog: Who Does It Hurt? [Pdf]
Extensive site provides information on health effects of ground-level ozone-smog. Explains the air quality index and provides links to area ozone maps.
Other
Smog City
Smog City, an interactive air pollution simulator, shows students how human choices, environmental factors, and land use contribute to air pollution.