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Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse
Transportation & Air Quality
Lesson Description:
This lesson provides two lessons on the history of transportation and transportation's effects on air quality. The lesson addresses pollutants and emissions relationship to air quality.
Objectives:
The students will:
• Explain how automobiles contribute to air pollution.
• Research and understand the health effects of automobile pollutants.
• Recognize the importance of the individual, and that each person has the potential to make a difference.
• Understand a basic history of the environmental movement.
• Understand the role of the government, its affect on the individual and on the environment.
This lesson provides two lessons on the history of transportation and transportation's effects on air quality. The lesson addresses pollutants and emissions relationship to air quality.
Objectives:
The students will:
• Explain how automobiles contribute to air pollution.
• Research and understand the health effects of automobile pollutants.
• Recognize the importance of the individual, and that each person has the potential to make a difference.
• Understand a basic history of the environmental movement.
• Understand the role of the government, its affect on the individual and on the environment.
Lesson Type:
- Discussion
- Group Work
- Other
Sustainability Topic:
- Climate Change
GEF Program Category:
- I Ride Green
Time Needed:
2-3 classes
2-3 classes
Standards Addressed:
Technology: Understand unintended effects of technology.
Social Studies: Understand the effect of inventions that have transformed daily life.
Social Studies: Recognize the importance of individual choices, actions and character.
Health: Research impacts of environmental factors on health.
Civics: Role of the individual in the political process.
Civics: Role of government agencies.
Language Arts: Identify basic facts from scientific literature; oral presentations; use electronic media for research (optional).
Math: Read and analyze tables, graphs and charts.
Technology: Understand unintended effects of technology.
Social Studies: Understand the effect of inventions that have transformed daily life.
Social Studies: Recognize the importance of individual choices, actions and character.
Health: Research impacts of environmental factors on health.
Civics: Role of the individual in the political process.
Civics: Role of government agencies.
Language Arts: Identify basic facts from scientific literature; oral presentations; use electronic media for research (optional).
Math: Read and analyze tables, graphs and charts.
Submitted By:
GEF on behalf of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
GEF on behalf of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
School or Group:
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
Contact Email:
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
