Through this interactive module, students learn that the atmosphere is so much more than air, its complex role on Earth should be explored, and its quality carefully monitored and protected.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how air pollution affects human health.

Students learn about electricity and air pollution while building devices to measure volatile organic compounds (VOC) by attaching VOC sensors to prototyping boards. In the second part of the activity, students evaluate the impact of...

Students are introduced to the concept of air quality by investigating the composition, properties, atmospheric layers and everyday importance of air. They explore the sources and effects of visible and invisible air pollution. By...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Air pollution is due to chemical substances and particles released into the air mainly by human actions. This pollution affects entire ecosystems around the world....

What do smog, acid rain, carbon monoxide, fossil fuel exhausts, and tropospheric ozone have in common? They are all examples of air pollution. This article describes the causes and effects of air pollution.

This comprehensive site on air pollutions, sponsored by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, includes worksheets, knowledge-assesment tools, and detailed instructions.

"Daily, regional ozone maps, health facts, real-time data by state, and ozone forecasts. Past ozone maps are available in Map Archives. Reducing air pollution tips."

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the causes and effects of air pollution.

Pennsylvania's DEP presents this site on air pollution. Learn about ozone, particulate matter, and the air quality index.

Links to fact sheets, articles, and educational tools on air pollution.

Extensive site provides information on health effects of ground-level ozone-smog. Explains the air quality index and provides links to area ozone maps.

This site provides information and activities for classes to learn more about ozone depletion and UV radiation.

A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for learners. They will examine spreadsheet data on air quality in Great Smoky National Parks, and solve problems using ratio and proportion. The exercises will help them to...

Each year EPA tracks the levels of pollutants in the air and how much of each pollutant (or the pollutants that form them) is emitted from various pollution sources. The Agency looks at these numbers year after year to see how the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how the ozone hole forms and what are its effects.

A comprehensive guide to climate change in Canada. This site offers both a national look and then looks at the implications of climate change on specific regions and provinces.

Smog City, an interactive air pollution simulator, shows students how human choices, environmental factors, and land use contribute to air pollution.

An interactive map used to find the current and forecasted air quality index for any location in the United States.

This is a site from a university page of the University of East Anglia that is focused on climatic research. It offers links to information sheets, research areas, publications, and other climate links. Each of the information sheets...

This lesson will discuss the effects of the weather on living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Weather Systems."

This lesson will discuss the effects of the weather on living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Weather Systems."

This lesson will discuss the effects of the weather on living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Weather Systems."