Teacher’s Corner

Clean Air Teacher’s Guide

A partnership between BC Transit, BC Ministry of Environment, and Environment Canada produced a poster and Teacher’s Guide for Grade 5 teachers. The Teacher’s Guide is a tool to help introduce air quality issues into the classroom. The poster design involves three Clean Air Heroes. Each hero has a different pollution problem to fight with specific tools. The three environments are: industry, urban transportation and rural neighbourhoods. The look and feel of the poster is classic comic book art — futuristic looking backgrounds done in sepia tones. 

PDFs of the Teacher’s Guide plus ordering information can be found here.

Other Resources

There are a number of Teacher’s Resources on Air Quality on the internet. The following list highlights a number of good quality sites for Grades K through 12.

• K-12 Education Workshops
• Community Learning Network
• Green Learning (Pembina Institute)

U.S. Sources

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Air Toxics lesson plans
• Air Pollution: What’s the Solution?