Curated OER
The Awful Eight Lesson Plan
The pupils list major air pollutants, what causes them, and their effects on people and the environment. Students list ways they can prevent or reduce the types of air pollution mentioned in the play.
Curated OER
Calculate Your Contribution
Learners assess the environmental impact of their transportation choices. They keep a transportation journal and use a website to calculate vehicle emissions for themselves and their class. They evaluate their transportation choices.
Curated OER
The Awful 8: The Play
Students become aware of the cause and effects of different air pollutants. They present a play about the different pollutants.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Organic Compounds List
Explains what an organic compound is, presents a list of the different classes of organic compounds, and discusses organic compounds in the human body. Also provides a list of other organic compounds including volatile and non-volatile...
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...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Volatility (Chemistry)
Detailed explanation of the term 'volatility' and how it is used in chemistry and physics. (Updated: January 9, 2012)
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Causes of Air Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the air pollutants released from fossil fuels, biomass burning, and volatile organic compounds.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Hot Summer Days Ozone Action
Easy to read and understand site from Environmental Education for Kids. Good and bad ozone explained and illustrated. Complete with glossary and Quizzler at the end.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: I Don't Believe My Eyes!
Young scholars develop their understanding of the effects of invisible air pollutants with a rubber band air test, a bean plant experiment and by exploring engineering roles related to air pollution. In an associated literacy activity,...
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.25 Indoor Air Pollution
Learn about some of the main sources of indoor air pollution.