Air Quality Detectors
Overview
Students will build on their previous knowledge of air pollution and how it affects both humans and the environment. Students will construct, collect, and analyze particulate matter from air in test areas around the school.
Activity Type:
Lesson
Target Grade Level:
3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Estimated Duration:
Varies
Topics:
Air
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations 4-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. 4-ESS3-2: Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. 5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment. MS-ESS3-2: Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems. MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. HS-LS4-5: Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species. HS-ESS2-2: Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth's surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems. |
Created by:
Adapted from the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals/Environmental Education Outreach Program
