Teachers, children and parents can begin to understand daily weather and climate by doing hands on science and learning day by day how to protect human health, clean up the neighborhood after the fires, and make an impact on daily discussions at dinner about dust to weather that are impacting us often undiscovered and now newly explored.
This PSA is an example of how STEM can enter classrooms whether English, Social Studies, History, or Current Events.
Below is a reading from the EPA's website about how dirty air effects older populations.
Under new English Language Development instruction standards https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/eldstandards.asp) comprehension is a huge part of of how teaching and learning can intersect.
A child may read a paragraph and fail at understanding vocabulary or the concepts in the article.
Here is an example that can be used whether your student is a science magnet or not. As a teacher, you can become a hit in your student's family by spanning the exploration of molecules to elements, or understanding clouds, data collected for community health, triaging whether it's a good day for hard exercise and managing asthma by reading GLOBE's storybook "What's up with the Atmosphere?". Field Trips to the Zoo Tropical Rainforest Exhibit or to the LA Arborteum and Botanical Gardens or to the Aquarium of the Pacific will come alive with your students when they see how many classrooms are being impacted by Scientists working with visualizing data and doing field science with hands on devices sending their work to satellites impacting projects with USAID, NOAA, NASA, JPL and NSF.
Further you can measure aerosols on GLOBE phone apple or android apps and create a poster by March 1st to send other students perhaps to the EU to Killarney should their poster be chosen by teams of Virtual Science Fair judges for presentations Killarney.
You can find out about Southern California and present your own study or just talk to your parents about better air, science and science words, math, working with your classmates and easier breathing. T
The excerpt source below is from EPA's website about issues that have led to Clean Air discussions from fire agencies to AQMD. Kids can use CE tools to monitor air quality and chemicals, the GLOBE Croatia students measured aerosols, conductivity, and pH. Chemistry, place, resources and measurements come alive studying Earth Science and working with 117 countries with students doing GLOBE.
Note: GLOBE's Virtual Science Fair deadline: 3/1/18. Enso workshop about Santa Barbara Mudslides on 2/8/18. EEI curricula from CDE can be used for a foot up in NGSS and Common Core standards to explain the world in your classroom from text books to ipads and from iphones and androids to the satellite making literacy, science, and IT come alive to make core studies exciting and future jobs that bridge school studies to the world and the community seem viable, accessible and tangible even an arm length away.
"As people age, their bodies are less able to compensate for the effects of environmental hazards. Air pollution can aggravate heart disease and stroke, lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, and diabetes. This leads to increased medication use, more visits to health care providers, admissions to emergency rooms and hospitals, and even death.
Ozone and Particulate Matter (PM) (especially smaller, fine particle pollution called PM 2.5) have the greatest potential to affect the health of older adults. Fine particle pollution has been linked to premature death, cardiac arrhythmias and heart attacks, asthma attacks, and the development of chronic bronchitis. Ozone, even at low levels, can exacerbate respiratory diseases.
The EPA has developed fact sheets that are intended to inform older adults and their caregivers about environmental health risks and take steps to reduce those risks.
EPA Fact Sheets
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See the AirNow PDF page to learn more.
(Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese here.)
- Age Healthier, Breathe Easier: Information for Older Adults and their Caregivers (PDF, 2 pp., 98KB)
- "It's Too Darn Hot" - Planning for Excessive Heat Events (PDF, 4 pp., 142KB)
- Environmental Hazards Weigh Heavy on the Heart (PDF, 4 pp., 172KB)
- The Air Quality Flag Program and Older Adults (PDF, 1 p., 184KB, about PDF)"
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What are aerosols:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosol
Inspire and Innovate:
http://www.inspireimagineinnovate.com/PDF/GLOBEsummary-by-Michael-H-Hoppe.pdf
What's Toxic and What's Not book..interesting indie book:
http://www.powells.com/book/whats-toxic-whats-not-9780425211946
Air and Water then Food:
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
http://www.polluterwatch.org/category/freetagging/clean-water-act
AQMD:
http://www.aqmd.gov/home/tools/air-quality
IQAir and Paper about Schools:
"Pilot study of high-performance air filtration for classroom
applications", INDOOR AIR
doi:10.1111/ina.12013, ; A. Polidori, P. M. Fine, V. White,
P. S. Kwon
South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD),
Diamond Bar, CA, USA
http://www.airpurifierguide.org/tech/consumer-reports
GLOBE research:
https://www.globe.gov/do-globe/globe-teachers-guide/atmosphere
Grade Level Teachers Guide:
https://www.globe.gov/do-globe/globe-teachers-guide/teachers-guide-search?p_p_id=globegovteacherguideportletsearch_WAR_globegovcmsportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_globegovteacherguideportletsearch_WAR_globegovcmsportlet_tgsearch=1
Cool California Units for Teachers to teach Science through Systems:
http://www.coolcalifornia.org/eei
Terc.edu videos and math!!!
https://investigations.terc.edu/
Enso and the mud and ash in post rain slides (El Nino campaign):
https://serc.carleton.edu/usingdata/accessdata/workshop09/team/globe.html
https://www.globe.gov/web/el-nino/el-nino-campaign/water-in-our-environment-student-research-campaign
https://www.globe.gov/web/el-nino/el-nino-campaign/water-in-our-environment-student-research-campaign/how-to-participate
GLOBE storybook now to include badges because of Virtual Science Fair, you too could talk science to grandparents and work with kids in Croatia, France and the Netherlands to just make a scratch in capturing data:
"Determining the presence of heavy metals in the air by using GLOBE Protocols for aerosols, conductivity, and PH" by Dino Besic, Sarah Butigan, and mentors Marina Pavlic and Irena Sabo, CD from Annual GLOBE Conference, Students from Prirodoslovna I Graficka Skola Rueka
French Study: https://www.globe.gov/documents/6054982/8933884/Presentation+Aerosol_Campaign_France2017.pdf/02f96036-782d-4ab4-9c1d-4ad396d6e34f
Create international collaboration with 46 schools and with College Jules Valle:
https://www.globe.gov/web/college-jules-valles
Chloe and aerosol campaign are now explorations for Elementary to High Schools:
https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/overview/aerosols/story-book