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Drivers, Start Your Engines!. Making Air Quality Practical , Relevant, and FUN for Youth Roberta Burnes Environmental Education Specialist Kentucky Division for Air Quality. Air quality is abstract. Make it active Make it personal Engage the senses.
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Drivers, Start Your Engines!
Making Air Quality Practical,
Relevant, and FUN for Youth
Roberta Burnes
Environmental Education Specialist
Kentucky Division for Air Quality
Air quality is abstract
- Make it active
- Make it personal
- Engage the senses
How do consumer decisions impact air quality?
2006 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible
MPG – City 18/Highway 26
Maximum Seating - 2
2006 Hummer H3 Midsize SUV
MPG – City 16/Highway 20
Maximum Seating - 5
2006 Toyota Prius Compact Hybrid Sedan
MPG – City 60/Highway 51
Maximum Seating - 5
Setting the Stage
- Students receive car cards with MPG data
- Each student gets three gas tokens
- Each gas token is worth one gallon of gas
Procedure
- Students line up
- Choose city or highway
Procedure
- Begin walking, counting steps
- One step=one mile
Procedure
- Refer to car cards for MPG
- Drop one gas token for every gallon of gas you use
- When you run out of gas, stop!
Procedure
- Some cars go farther than others on a gallon of gas! Maybe I should choose another vehicle ….
The carpool advantage
- Students choose who they want to carpool with
- Students “pool” their gas tokens
- No one runs out of gas!
Extensions: Hybrid cars
- Where’s the exhaust?
Extensions: GHG emissions
- Collecting tailpipe exhaust to test for CO2
Extensions: GHG emissions
- Car exhaust is release into solution of bromothymol blue
- Amount of color change indicates relative concentration of CO2
Conclusions
- Air quality impacts everything – people, plants, environment
- Look for ways to make it “touchy-feely”
- Have fun!
