Teacher Websites

Asthma Activity Book: This great 44-page activity book can be downloaded for free from Advocate Health Care. Great for teaching lessons about health and about air quality. (Adobe acrobat required, free download).

HazeCam: This is an hourly updated image taken from the roof of our building in the Clifton area of Cincinnati. You can use these images to compare the amount of haze in the sky at your school to here at our building. You can choose to see how far landmarks are from our camera to aid your comparison. This site links to HazeCams in other cities, such as, Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis.

Air Quality Index: View the local air quality on this page and follow the health link to see how it may affect you and your students.

Pollen & Mold: Got Allergies? Keep an eye on the pollen and mold count and figure out if you and your students are allergic to ragweed, grass, or mold.

Ozone Mapping Project from the Environmental Protection Agency. Animated map of the Midwest showing ozone levels. You can view the current levels and yesterdays levels. How do we fare compared to our neighbors?

Save Planet Polluto This fun and free CD-ROM game has been developed by the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District under a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The game teaches the causes of air pollution and what can be done to improve air quality.

Airhead Emissions calendar and emissions index for many household products. They also have other great information about air pollution and your health, and air pollution and your community.

Math & Science Coalition of southeast Michigan's Earth Science Lessons. Hundreds of lessons and activities relating not only to air pollution, but also to water quality, weather, and many other earth science topics. Lesson are split into early elementary, late elementary, middle school, and high school.

The Regional Ozone Coalition: OKI (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana) Regional Council of Governments, has resources and links available on their site, about how to do your share for cleaner air, alternative fuel vehicles, and much more.

Free Project A.I.R.E Curriculum (Air Information Resources for Educators) at this New England Environmental Protection Agency's site. The curriculum contains warm up exercises on how to read data and how to make decisions, followed by 21 air quality activities for use in the classroom and a suggested reading guide.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: What is Air Pollution: This site contains information about what air quality is, both indoor and outdoor, and has a number of activities for you to try in middle/high school classrooms, such as debate topics, a role-playing scenario, and a soot experiment.

Alliance to Save Energy's web site offers free downloads of many different activities focusing on energy and air pollution, and conserving energy. Lessons are available for elementary, middle, and high school. Also available from the Alliance are fact sheets, information about the Green Schools: Using energy efficiency to strengthen schools program, which has pages for students and teachers.