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Curated OER

Air: Air Quality Picture Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize which activities contribute to poor air quality and which contribute to good air quality. They discover how air quality is measured, and come up with ways that humans can have a positive affect on air quality.
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Teach Engineering

Understanding the Air through Data Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is there a correlation or causation relationship between air pollutants? Groups develop a hypothesis about the daily variation of air pollutants, specifically ozone and CO2. Using Excel to analyze the data, the groups evaluate their...
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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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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Air Pollution: Tracking Ozone

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will monitor the levels of ozone in Trenton, New Jersey for several days and make final decisions about the influence of weather on ground level ozone.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Air Pollution: Will There Be Ozone Tomorrow?

For Students 9th - 10th
Collect and analyze real time ozone data to make determinations about the status of ozone in your local area. See if you can apply what you learn to make predictions about tomorrow's ozone levels.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Battling for Oxygen

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using gumdrops and toothpicks, students conduct a large-group, interactive ozone depletion model. Students explore the dynamic and competing upper atmospheric roles of the protective ozone layer, the sun's UV radiation and harmful...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...