Congratulations to Emilie Heesen’s 4th-Grade Class at St. Anne School, our Gift Card Winners for 2011!


Left to right - Dylan, Mrs. Heesen, Kahli, and Aidan celebrating with a few of the Amazon.com gift card book purchases.

Thank you to all the teachers and students who are doing their share for cleaner air!

Healthy habits start at a young age, and we’re dedicated to helping teachers promote a productive and healthy learning environment in our schools that students will carry out into our communities. The Air Quality Partnership is proud to provide educators with free, fun and informative learning activities and resources that teach children about the impact of air pollution and all the ways they can contribute to help improve air.

What’s in it for you?
Healthier kids! There’s information everywhere these days that tells us our children are happier, more productive and learn faster when they are healthy. Finding ways to improve air quality at your school and empowering students to develop their own good air quality habits gives them a sense of pride that “they are doing their share for cleaner air!”

This toolkit includes easy-to-use and engaging lesson plans, activities, and other resources to teach students about the connections between air quality, health, weather, and other related science topics.

• Lesson plans appropriate for:
  -Grades K through 2
  -Grades 3 through 5
  -Grades 6 through 8
  
• Handouts – Simple one-page, age-appropriate handouts
  
• Background information and fact sheets
  
• Additional learning activities
  
• Bibliography of curricula, lesson plans, activities, publications, and Web sites

 

View the Toolkit

Congratulations to Lori Middaugh’s 5th-Grade Class at Slatington Elementary School, our Pizza Party Winners for 2011!



Thank you to all the teachers and students who are doing their share for cleaner air!

Great Activity For Earth Day or Any Day!
A fun, engaging, and informative computer activity to help students learn about improving air quality with questions, answers and automatic results built in.

Students Click Here to get started!

• Great as a group or individual activity for students in grades 3 - 5
• Chance to win a free pizza party
• Helps meet standards-based academic requirements for:
  -Environment & Ecology
  -Information Skills
  -Health, Safety & Physical Education
  

 

Adventures in Air Quality Coloring Book
Help students learn about improving our air quality.

Click Here to preview "Adventures in Air Quality."

To request copies of "Adventures in Air Quality" for your classroom, Click Here.

 

 

Particulate Matter (PM) PowerPoint Presentation
Teachers, please use this useful, 10 minute narrated PowerPoint presentation to help inform your students about the causes and effects of PM2.5 pollution.

⇓ Download the PowerPoint file (42MB).

There are many national, regional and local organizations that provide updated resource materials for teachers and students, most of which are FREE and FUN.

EPA's Learn the Issues: Air Page
Breathing clean air helps us stay healthy. On this page, you can learn about things that cause air pollution and what you can do to keep the air clean. A great resource and companion material for the "Adventures in Air Quality" coloring book.

AIRNow.gov
The U.S. EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies developed the AIRNow Web site to provide the public with easy access to national air quality information. There’s also a learning center with a wealth of fun and informative learning activities for Kids, Students, and Teachers.

Something in the Air
By John Cowens
Take a deep breath of that crisp fall air and introduce your students to these insightful experiments to help them understand Air Quality.

Fun Games
Includes Word Search, Pollution Prevention Scramble, Fill-In-The-Blanks and Make a Sentence (PDF)