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To engage students in a real-world issue (Bransford, Brown, and Cocking 2000) that affects their communities, the author designed an entire unit to investigate air pollution in their home state, Connecticut. The unit’s…
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Using EPA and NOAA websites, students are able to view pollution inventories (the amounts and kinds of pollution released in a given location) and follow pollution along its estimated path of travel. This inquiry based…
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Straws and Air Pressure: Using An Everyday Object to Explain Air Pressure
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Use straws and other inexpensive items to explore concepts related to air pressure.
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Green Science: A Breath of Fresh Air: Addressing Indoor Air Quality
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This column focuses on issues related to environmentally friendly and sustainable science. This month’s issue looks at the causes, sources, and types of indoor pollution.
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Use anchoring phenomena to explain air mass interactions.
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Editor’s Roundtable: An air of respectability
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Hold up an open container without any obvious liquid or solid in it and ask a typical class what’s in the container, and you will readily and enthusiastically get the response, “Nothing.” Out of sight, out of mind is a…
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The Early Years: Air Is Not Nothing
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Children usually begin to understand that a substance called air is all around us after age three, but they don’t grasp that air is matter until age five, or even older. They may learn that “air is a gas” but have…
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