AIR

Detailed instruction for each separate task is provided on the dedicated subpage 16th April 2021 deadline for work in national groups

March and April

TASK 1:

What has our local government done to make our city more sustainable?

Find out what your town has done to reduce air pollution. Go to your city website, learn about the work of your local government and its department dealing with sustainable development, learn about local climate action plans. 

Teacher responsible for the task: Ana Paula Alexandre and Maria Almeida

TASK 2:

Air pollution monitoring

Carry out an analysis of air pollution monitoring data in your town (the last 5 years) and find out whether the policies implemented by your local government contributed to the reduction of air pollution. Maybe you will be able to find some data from March 2020 till now, it would be interesting to know how COVID-19 influenced air quality. You can use publicly available reports - an example one can be found here: 

Air pollution monitoring data in London

Teacher responsible for the task: Murat Tas and Sezer Mangan

TASK 3

Investigate the impact of climate change

Analyse your town’s air quality data available on a selected air pollution map over a two-week period, record the results and compare them in international groups. You can use  World Air Map or  https://airindex.eea.europa.eu/Map/AQI/Viewer/ or https://waqi.info/ 

Teacher responsible for the task: Agnieszka Mądzielewska-Jagodzińska

Canva posters - and present the results during virtual mobility

TASK 4

Pollution catchers

Teacher responsible for the task: Valentina Burley

TASK 5

Take action

https://connecting-classrooms.britishcouncil.org/resources/home-learning/clean-air/take-action

Think about the following questions: 

• Who is responsible for air pollution? Is it governments, industry or people?  
• Who is responsible for improving the levels of air pollution? Is it governments, industry, or people? 
• Is the responsibility shared equally? Should it be? 

List three things people in your community, or even society at large, could ‘do less’, ‘do differently or ‘do better’ to help reduce air pollution. 

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Teacher responsible for the task: Joanna Lisewska

TASK 6

AGENDA 20/30 _ GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, sustainable, and sustainable
Learning objectives: Imagine/build a sustainable city based on air quality and respect for rivers.

Subject links: Science, Geography, Citizenship, History, and Philosophy.

Challenge 1: Are sustainable cities utopistic? Search for sustainable cities and examples of utopian cities 
Challenge 2: What can degrowth teach us? The "8 R" paradigm (by S. Latouche)
Challenge 3: How can Science, Technology, and Ethics help us? Sketch up how your own town should look like in 2030.

Teacher responsible for the task: Giusi Gualtieri Giulio Luzietti

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