Teaching Children About Air Pollution
Our goal is to help you teach your students about "Clean Air" timely topics including air pollution, climate change, and how to reduce air pollution. It is also important for students to understand that they can make a difference. The outreach materials on this page can help you educate your students about various types of air pollution, and how air pollution can affect their health and the health of our planet.
Children will have fun folding our new "Clean Air Fortune Teller Game" into its unique shape and learning fun facts related to air pollution. You can download and print the game listed in the right column of this page.
"Air Villain" Trading Cards have clever cartoon characters on the front of each of 12 different air pollutants. The reverse side of the card includes a description of the chemical, the crime (health effect) of the chemical, and the cause (how and where the chemical is emitted). A Teacher's Guide for the cards is under development.
The "I Love Clean Air" Sticker Book teaches children about carpooling, ways to reduce climate change, and recycling rather than burning trash. A downloadable copy of the sticker book (which can be printed in black ink on standard letter size paper) is available, as well as downloadable stickers and a teacher's guide.
The "Clean Driving" Bookmark offers tips on how to save money and gasoline and how to properly maintain your vehicle to get better fuel mileage. You can download and print this color bookmark.
The "Clean Air in 10 Easy Steps" Bookmark lists 10 ways to help to save energy and clean the air. A fun project would be to have your students add other tips to this list. You can download and print this color bookmark.
The "Getting There With Clean Air" Activity Book is a coloring book with other activities that include identifying sources of and solutions to air pollution, and a maze to help an eastern bluebird find its way home. It can be printed in black ink on 11 x 17 inch paper.
Email or call the Division of Air Outreach Office for copies of these materials.
More about Teaching Children About Air Pollution:
- Additional Resources for Teaching Children About Air Pollution - DEC and external resource listings of additional information for parents and teachers.
- Air Villain Trading Cards for Teachers - teach children about different air pollutants
