Suggested Classroom Activities
1. Hold class discussions on an air pollution issue, for example ask students:
2. If there is an air monitoring station close to your school, visit it with the class. It may be a good introduction to further activities. For this activity you could visit the site and walk around the outside of the air monitoring station or contact EPA office closest to your local area for a tour.
3. Hold a class debate on an air pollution issue, for example:
4. Use the Transport Survey spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel file, 28 KB) to conduct a student survey to discern how many students:
Once this data is collected:
5. Contact AirWatch to arrange Air monitoring in your school.
6. Celebrity Heads:
Celebrity heads is a fun way to learn about air pollution.
Select three or four students to sit up the front and become the celebrity heads. For this activity write a word/draw a picture to indicate what each child up the front is representing. This is then stuck on the black board above the child’s head. Students ask questions to help determine what they are. When asking a question that is correct, students are granted another question. When students ask a question that is incorrect it becomes the next students turn to ask a question.
For example a student who is a CAR might ask...
Do I have wheels ? Yes
Do I pollute the air? Yes
Am I a bike? No
This proceeds until each student guesses what they are. Rotate students as Celebrity Head rounds are finished.
There are many words that can be used in this game. Some key words you might like to use are…