Air quality education resources
Air Quality education resources for teachers and school support staff. This page is currently under development and will continue to fill with healthier air lesson plans and campaign materials for teachers and school staff to use in lessons and for in-school campaigns.
Further information
Air quality resources produced by Leicester City Council
- Introduction and teacher information (word)
- Air quality education activities overview (word)
- Making a clean air plan for your school (word)
- Useful links (word)
Assemblies
- Be bright be seen KS1 (ppt 1.79 kb)
- Introduction to air pollution KS1 - 2 (ppt 4.35 kb)
- Switch off your engine KS1 - 2 (ppt 3.23 kb)
Workshops, lessons and lesson plans
- Workshop: introduction to air quality (KS1-3)
- Introductory workshop presentation (ppt)
- Introductory Workshop lesson plan (word/pdf)
- Air quality cause activity - match the cause label to the cause card
- Cause cards (pdf)
- Cause labels (pdf)
- Air quality hand-out (word/pdf)
- Lesson: Fossil fuels: Energy Explorers - What is a fossil fuel? (KS1-2)
- Energy Explorers 1 - Fossil Fuels (ppt)
- Lesson plan (word/pdf)
- Fossil Fuel Facts (pdf)
- Lesson: Fossil fuels: Energy Explorers - What is renewable energy? (KS2)
- Energy explorers 2 - Renewable Energy (ppt)
- Lesson plan (word/pdf)
- Energy Resources Card Sort Game (pdf) - Match up the description and image to the energy source
- Lesson: Air pollution: Past and present (KS2)
- PowerPoint (ppt)
- Lesson plan (word/pdf)
- Lesson: Air pollution (KS2)
- Lesson: The effect of air pollution on living things and their environment (KS2)
- PowerPoint (ppt)
- Lesson plan (word/pdf)
- Healthier air worksheet (pdf)
- Poster (pdf)
- Lesson: Air pollutants and their impact - where does pollution come from? (KS3/4)
- Lesson: Why buy an electric vehicle? (KS3/4)
- Why buy an electric car (ppt)
- Why buy an electric car lesson plan (word)
- Why buy an electric car resources (word)
- Research activity tables for comparing vehicles (word)
- Car brochures
- BMWi (pdf)
- Citreon C Zero (pdf)
- E-up (pdf)
- Kia e-Niro (pdf)
- Nissan Leaf (pdf)
- Peugeot 208e (pdf)
- Renault Zoe (pdf)
- Tesla Model S (pdf)
- Lesson: How do we monitor air quality?(KS3/4)
- Lesson: Behind the headlines: can we work out which are reliable? (KS3/4)
- Behind the headlines presentation (ppt)
- Behind the headlines lesson plan (word)
- Behind the headlines research question (word)
- Behind the headlines story 1 (word)
- Behind the headlines story 2 (word)
- Behind the headlines story 3 (word)
- Behind the headlines story 4 (word)
- Behind the headlines story 5 (word)
- Lesson: How do we improve air quality? (KS3/4)
- Practical: Lichen study
- Lichen study lesson plan (word)
- Site characteristics worksheet (word)
- Tree characteristics worksheet (word)
- Site characteristics game (ppt)
- Lichen identification games (ppt)
- Lichen identification tally chart (word)
- Air quality education resources available from other organisations (please note we do not specifically endorse any of these)
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