Students will use an online calculator to estimate their household's carbon footprint and explore various actions to reduce it.

The AirData website provides access to air pollution data for the entire United States. Users have the ability to produce reports and maps of air pollution data based on criteria that they specify.

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Students will explore how human population growth, air pollution, agriculture, mining, water use, and other human activities have impacted the environment and the mark they will leave in the fossil record.

Students learn about the composition of the atmosphere and how atmospheric conditions affect humans.

Students use online calculators to calculate and compare the amount of CO2 produced by different energy sources in an effort to think about and evaluate a reduction of carbon-based emissions.

In this chapter, students will explore relationships between air quality and population density using the image visualization tool, Google Earth. You will learn how to download NO2 data and analyze them to develop a conceptual understanding of how population and topography can influence the air quality of a region. Once you have learned the techniques, you are encouraged to explore seasonal changes in nitrogen dioxide concentrations at other locations. This chapter is part of the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET). Each EET chapter provides teachers and/or students with direct practice for using scientific tools to analyze Earth science data. Students should begin on the Case Study page.

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This blog is designed for North Carolina's K-12 teachers and students who are interested in the topic of energy and alternative energy (nuclear and renewables). This blog is maintained by Dana Haine, K-12 Science Education Manager for UNC-Chapel Hill's Institute for the Environment, with funding provided by Progress Energy.

Students investigate issues of energy use in the Americas that are related to energy consumption, carbon emissions, and population size. They map and graph the information and then analyze it.

The activities in this guide will help students understand variations in environmental parameters by examining connections among different phenomena measured on local, regional, and global scales.

Students will differentiate between the good and bad ozone, locate the position in the atmosphere where the good and bad ozone reside, plot monthly ozone data, and understand the ground level ozone effects on humans and plants.

Students will examine NASA images and images from the Neumayer Antarctic Station to graph and investigate atmospheric ozone.

This brief video lesson discusses how the impacts that humans have made have become so pervasive, profound, and permanent that some geologists believe we merit our own epoch. Discussion/assessment questions and suggested supplemental resources are also included.

This brief video lesson discusses processes used to create a cleaner version of coal. Discussion/assessment questions and suggested supplemental resources are also included.

Students will visualize how combustion reactions occur and how the burning of fossil fuels produces CO2.

Students will be introduced to the criteria pollutants and will work in groups to make cartoon booklets demonstrating the formation of ground-level ozone and the destruction of stratospheric ozone.

Students will use real maps, images, and data to develop an ozone forecast for a particular day in Charlotte, North Carolina. They will then check their forecast against the actual ozone forecast and measurements for that day. Students should already have experience reading weather maps and forecasting weather before doing this activity.

Students will learn the sources of some common air pollutants by making pie charts showing the main sources of PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen dioxide (or nitrogen oxides) and sulfur dioxide for the United States as a whole, their state, and their county. They will generate explanations for the similarities and differences among the sources for different geographic areas.

Sudents will use ozone and weather data* to explore the relationship between ground-level ozone pollution and (1) maximum daily temperature, (2) average daily solar radiation, (3) average daily wind speed, and (4) daily precipitation. Students will make a simple predictive model based on the data.

*The data files are located here: http://itsourair.org/2-2-model-predict-ground-level-ozone