Acid Rain is an EPA Web site that offers student experiments, activities and lesson plans related to acid rain. 

The Air & Waste Management Association offers an Environmental Resource Guide on Air Quality, containing lessons, activities and fact sheets, with units for several different grade levels. Lessons are available in both Spanish and English.

Clean Air Express is a K-12 teacher resource manual offered by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. The complete manual is downloadable as Adobe Acrobat files, and includes curriculum to be integrated in social studies, health, math, science and environmental studies. Curricula deal with air quality, common pollutants, and activities that can be adapted for different grade levels. The website also includes a Just for Kids section.

EPA's Global Warming website contains a wealth of materials that educators and outreach professionals can use in presentations and classroom activities on climate change science, potential impacts, and mitigation options. Includes a searchable database of resources.

The EPA Air Pollution Distance Learning Network distributes air pollution training to State and local government environmental professionals, as well as the private sector, via satellite.  

Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes offers thirteen Instructional Modules on different indoor air pollutants on their website, for use by community educators.

The National Park Service Air Resources Division offers a series of five activities for grades six through eight to help teach students about acid rain in the Acid Rain Lesson Plan. Background information and activities are available as individual, printable PDF pages.

The Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan is a national repository of teaching and research materials for faculty dealing with pollution prevention in various sectors. Their teaching resources include education modules on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depletion.

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission's Office of Air Quality has designed a wide range of lesson plans to provide educators who teach kindergarten through 12th grade with background, activities and resources on air quality.

Indoor & Outdoor Air Pollution provides background information and suggested classroom activities for middle and high school students, from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Air Quality Education resources from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Protection include an air quality index for kids and a list of ten steps for improving air quality.

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality offers an Environmental Education Resources Directory -- Air that lists curriculum materials, videos, slide shows and publications on air quality topics, with contact information for the listed sources.

Last updated: January 31, 2005

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