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  • The Air Up There

    Journal Article |

    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…

  • In Search of Air Pollution

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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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When Air Masses Collide!

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    Use anchoring phenomena to explain air mass interactions.

  • 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…

  • 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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