Timely along with AQMD's "Right to Breathe Campaign" and consumer electronics/ tech in the home or or now in school.  Students can use their parent's smart phone while at the park or in class using the classroom ipad/hand held device to see what is circulating in the air and impacting human lungs.  They can link the news, their studies, and their own observations through working on science teams.

In an aerosol data campaign, they will utilize NASA Langely GLOBE STEM activities.

They will upload observation data to the satellites to study air quality measurements for healthy air or air full of natural and manmade particles.  The South Coast AQMD is working hard to protect AQ and inform the public while the Long Beach Port just released its CAPP plan…cities and industry working with the public sector and agencies to clean up toxins in and off land.

This month children at Kids First of So Cal can expect to be lost in space if not lost in spaces they have never conceived of before because of GLOBE.gov's  aerosol campaign and because California is a great place to think about how to live together gracefully and waste less of our important vital and shared resources. It is also a way students from 120 countries are sharing their findings through partnerships to understand forces in Earth Science today.

Announcing Spring and Summer work with Cloud Study, the colors of the sky, the sunsets when natural aerosols are spouted by volcanoes or pushed into the air via fires, factories, or emissions in order to try out making measurements, learning vocabulary, building comprehension or be healthier, children will use technology in handhold equipment, virtual classrooms, online data collection that will lead to future success in academics and building new stacks of words while having fun.

On Hilo, Kilauhea is spouting and videos are already posted to look at Pele in her full force or understand how islands rose from beneath the ocean and became home to animal, birds, fish and man using apps or videos on youtube to see, capture, and use math and camera footage, satellites and GLOBE storybooks and hand outs to explore team work, group and solo learning, science terms, concepts of force, heat, lift, pollution, gas, solid, liquid, earth and matter.

May is a great time of year to make volcanoe's, but this year the lava tunnels and magma, gases and spouts are forcing people to evacuate and learn about VOG, future safety and common sense in spills, or wildfires, and basic chemistry that is part of the water cycle, geography, topography, and urban design.

Kids First of So Cal children are continuing with "The World Around Me" by sending their citizen science findings to GLOBE.  They will be posted on the JPL/UCAR sites in preparation for more fun this summer with English, Math, and IT exploring Science through Stories and "Anything's Possible!" used in Northern Ireland in the younger grades to spur understanding and interest the Sciences in children anchoring important constructs Earth Science with academic and hands on experimentation that leads to research, writing, and accomplishment. It makes the common core standards understandable and vocabulary building a cinch.

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Openings for Summer Camp and Fall 2018 now (Free theatre show May 23 by Enrichment Works 4:15pm at Plummer Elementary, consider donating to their scholarship fund today:

www.kidsfirst.la

GLOBE Storybooks in different languages:

http://earthwatch.urbanresiliency.org/get-involved/certifiedcs/

https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/F_Whats_SCOOL.html

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/globe/

https://www.nasa.gov/content/s-cool-students-cloud-observation-online

https://www.globe.gov/web/air-quality-campaign

Why Healthy Air?

http://earthwatch.urbanresiliency.org/operation-healthy-air/

http://earthwatch.urbanresiliency.org/operation-health-air-training-materials/

http://earthwatch.urbanresiliency.org/resources/training/

http://earthwatch.urbanresiliency.org/get-involved/certifiedcs/

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/clean-air

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/gardening/green-and-pleasant-pot-plants-will-work-as-natural-air-con-373708.html

PREL and Pele (Stories to unify and educate)

:

https://vimeo.com/39803104

https://www.guamfilmfestival.org/filmmaker-spotlight-e-hoomau-why-maui-snared-the-sun/

http://prel.org/

http://prel.org/index.php?/announcements/prel-launches-pacific-wide-storytelling-initiative

Kilauhea Map:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2759/

https://gisgeography.com/gis-applications-uses/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17327574/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-eruption-photos-videos

https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=8706

Mapping:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36089

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6739

 Air Campaign:

https://www.globe.gov/do-globe/measurement-campaigns

Island formation:

https://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/geoscience-topics/natural-hazards/Pages/Volcanoes.aspx

https://www.irishcentral.com/travel/the-volcanic-island-of-ireland-the-emerald-isles-harmless-craters-125780058-237763971

Time to teach about aerosols and take measurements and use the Volcanoe (s) whether Vesuvius or Kilauhea (the Getty Villa was restored from one disaster and set up along the coast):

http://www.kitv.com/story/38109291/big-islands-lava-threat

http://www.kitv.com/clip/14328014/big-island-fissure-eruption

Back to school today and Lava threat news:

http://www.kitv.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=14327776

http://www.kitv.com/story/38125269/which-big-island-schools-are-open-on-monday:

Kamehameha Schools confirms all its East Hawaii operations will be open for business beginning Monday, May 7, unless conditions change. Those are:

KS Hawai'i campus 

KS Preschools – Pahoa, Keaukaha, Kea?au, Hilo, Pi?ihonua, Waianuenue

Kuamahi Programs/Training

KS business offices and Kuamahi sites 

Five charter schools on Hawai?i Island will be closed on Monday, May 7, due to the volcanic activity. They are: 

Hawai?i Academy of Arts & Sciences Public Charter School (PCS)

 Ka Umeke Kaeeo PCS

Ke Ana Laahana PCS

Ke Kula o Nawahiokalaniopuu Iki LPCS

Kua o ka La New Century PCS (will also be closed on Tuesday) 

Pele's Sacred Grounds:

https://kalani.com/lava-update-may-2018/

Follow Hawai?i County Civil Defense active alerts at http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/active-alerts and Hawai?i County Civil Defense Agency on Facebook. Learn more at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory website, https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/.

Explore the story of Volcano Goddess Pele in this lecture by Kumu Ryan McCormack, Puna Mythology and Place Names, https://bit.ly/2F1U2Y1.  

HA to talk about Science, Beauty, Culture, and Contextualizing living on an island:

Bringing ancient and new ideas together for healthy minds, bodies, systems and resources, as well as a new sense of self and belonging:

http://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/DOE%20Forms/HA-Article-July2016.pdf

https://vimeo.com/219016009

Fresno:

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/fresno-tries-new-approach-to-combatting-asthma/article_fe37ce61-598e-5d70-8920-bf6ac65e280b.html

Vegetables to Woodlands impacted:

http://www.globalsciencebooks.info/Online/GSBOnline/images/0712/TAET_1(1&2)/TAET_1(2)13-23o.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226892068_Measuring_Aerosol_and_Heavy_Metal_Deposition_on_Urban_Woodland_and_Grass_Using_Inventories_of_210PB_and_Metal_Concentrations_in_Soil

Hawaii to Ireland (Natural to Manmade toxins) Volcanic Smog (VOG) volcano hazards:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/kilauea-volcano-eruption-hawaii.html

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs169-97/

https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&mapcenter=0&cityid=44

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/breathe-easy-air-quality-in-northern-ireland-improving-28505916.html

Hokule'a and reenactments with real navigators and iphone tools:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation

Video:

http://www.aqmd.gov/home/research/right-to-breathe-home

AQMD's On the Air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZx4bkxvWYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8Qu9sNX2o

https://airnow.gov/

The Storybook to Calipso and other satellites to understand the power of particles and their impact on weather or climate, air quality or exercise days (asthma self-control factors) inside and outside air changes:

http://nasawavelength.org/resource/nw-000-000-004-181

https://www.globe.gov/documents/6054982/79a98c30-4141-4279-bc3d-f3c6b818840b

https://soas2013.rutgers.edu/

Resources:

Take Action

After you have seen "The Right to Breathe," please take action to help reduce air pollution in Southern California!  Below are links to sources that can help you get started.

·       Air Alerts – Sign-up to receive daily air quality alerts and no-burn day forecasts for your area via e-mail or Twitter.

·       Ten Things You Can Do to Help Clean the Air (PDF) – A guide to 10 steps you can take to be part of the clean air solution.

·       Clean Air Choices – The Clean Air Choices program provides a one-stop resource for information on the benefits of using clean technologies on the road and in your home.

·       Simple Solutions to Reduce Air Pollution (PDF) – Published by the California Air Resources Board, this guide offers 50 simple steps you can take to improve air quality.

·       Air Quality Index Brochure (PDF) – The Air Quality Index (AQI) is the tool widely used to gauge air quality and caution residents of potential health effects for various air quality conditions. Air quality forecasts are based on the AQI.