Welcome to Air Pollution: What's the Solution? an educational
project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online real time
data to guide student discovery of the science behind the causes
and effects of outdoor air pollution. Through this project,
students will focus on outdoor air pollution; what it is, what
factors contribute to its formation and the health effects from
breathing polluted air. Students will use data and animated maps
from the Internet and monitor for the presence of air pollution.
Students are challenged to think critically and creatively about
the problems surrounding air pollution. By the end of this
project, students will be able to: - Describe what air
pollutants are, when and how outdoor air pollution is formed,
and what the health effects are from breathing polluted air. -
Read the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index
(AQI) chart, record weather data, and determine the presence of
air pollutants. - Create graphs to help visualize or recognize
trends. - Predict when g