1. Speaker Air Quality Workshop for Teachers Location Date
Air Pollution: What's the Solution? Using Real Time Data to Teach Air Pollution
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The on line curriculum, “Air Pollution: What’s the Solution” was designed for students in grades 6-9 and uses real time data to teach air pollution.
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2. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Project Goals
Guide student discovery of the causes and effects of ground-level ozone pollution
Engage students through the use of online real time data gathered by government air scientists
The goals of the project are to guide student’s…
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3. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Project Developers
Developed by the Stevens Institute of Technology, Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
Funded by the U.S. EPA
Supervised by the nonprofit Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management and U.S. EPA
                           
                                  
The project was developed by…
Funded by the US EPA….
Supervised by the nonprofit Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management and U.S. EPA
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4. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Project Description
Designed for Grades 6 - 9
Correlates with National Science Education Standards
Meets the Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12) objectives
The target audience for this project is students in grades 6-9.
The project correlates with…
Meets the objectives of the Excellence in….
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5. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Real Time Data
Technology can be a catalyst to improve K-12 education:
Increases problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
Enables visualization of complex concepts or phenomena
Promotes interactivity
Facilitates exploration of selected topics in greater depth
Provides opportunity for involvement in authentic tasks 
Benefits of using real time data…
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6. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Project Description
Use as a self-contained module or integrate lessons into existing curriculum
Contains six core lessons and four enrichment lessons
Can be taught in as few as six class sessions or expanded to classes
Description of the project…
The project can be used as a self-contained module or ….
Contains six core lessons and four enrichment lessons…
The material can be taught in six class sessions or expanded to 10 – 12 classes.
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7. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Project Description
Can be accessed on the internet or downloaded
Uses colorful maps and animations to show ozone formation throughout the U.S.
Is interactive, fun and engaging
Description of the project…
This project can be accessed by any student or teacher with access to the Internet.
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8. Skills and Knowledge Acquired
Students will be able to:
Describe what ozone is, how it is formed and what the health effects are from breathing ground-level ozone
Create graphs to help visualize or recognize trends
Students will be able to….
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9. Skills and Knowledge Acquired
Predict when and where ground-level ozone may occur
Use knowledge gained to create awareness about ground-level ozone and the associated health effects
Students will be able to….
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10. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Activities
Core Activities
Ozone Between Us
Weather’s Role
Tracking Ozone
Will There Be Ozone Tomorrow?
Smog City
What Can You Do?
Enrichment Activities
Create Your Own Investigation
People at Risk
What is Your AQI?
Transport
There are Core Activities and Enrichment Activities….
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11. Features of Each Activity
Step-by-step procedures
Student Worksheets
Learn More Area for students
Teacher Area – background information
Embedded links to relevant web sites
Each activity contains….
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12. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
The Ozone Between Us
         
                                                         
                                                         
The is the Core Activity – “The Ozone Between Us.” The students will investigate ground-level ozone. A student worksheet is provided.
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13. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
The Ozone Between Us
This map depicts ozone formation and loops over a 24 hour period.
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14. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Student Worksheet
This is an example of the student worksheet for the lesson “The Ozone Between Us.”
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15. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Weather’s Role
In this lesson, “Weather’s Role,” the students will collect and analyze data, make comparisons and determinations about ozone levels.
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16. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Weather’s Role
New England Maps for August 13, 2002
                                                                                                                               
                          
                                                  
When the student clicks on Boston, MA the map of that area shows high levels of ozone even at 8 am in the morning. Ground-level ozone is formed when two types of pollutants, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and oxides of nitrogen, react in the presence of sunlight. Ozone is likely to reach unhealthy levels on hot sunny days. The red on the map indicates unhealthy air quality. The student’s will investigate how weather has influenced this high level of ozone during the early morning hours.
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17. Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
What Can You Do?
                                                         
                                                         
“What Can You Do” is a lesson that will help the students understand what they and others can do (what actions they can take) to help reduce ground-level ozone.
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18. Air Pollution: What’s the Solution?
Contact Information
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