In the RCPCH RCP 2020 publication The Inside Story: Health effects of indoor air quality on children and young people, on page 15, #TeamCleanAir&Us said:
“Children and young people want clear, factual and accessible information about what the potential harm is from poor indoor air quality and what we (children, young people, parents and carers) can do to avoid or reduce indoor air pollutants”.
Many of the Indoor Air Quality Working Party members were contributing authors to this publication and have produced these worksheets for primary school children as a first step towards addressing this request from children and young people.
Resources
Electronic resources to engage and involve children, parents, teachers and health professionals in understanding indoor air quality environmental scientific knowledge have been created – they include:
- Sheet 1: Healthy air questions (pdf, 1 page, 852 KB) | Healthy air answers (pdf, 1 page, 571 KB) Please note: An error in the previous version has been corrected, the word maze does now include ‘chest infections’
- Sheet 2: Building bunting (pdf, 3 pages, 1.3 MB) | Building bunting answers (pdf, 1 page, 1.2 MB)
- Sheet 3: Hazard spotting (pdf, 1 page, 1.5 MB) | Hazard spotting answers (pdf, 1 page, 1.3 MB)
- Sheet 4: What is in dirty air? (pdf, 3 pages, 1.9 MB) | What is in dirty air – answers (pdf, 1 page, 1.3 MB)
- Sheet 5: What can you measure? (pdf, 2 pages, 1.1 MB) Please note: requires equipment – a portable digital thermometer (°C) and humidity (%) sensor
- Sheet 6: Source control (pdf, 1 page, 800 KB) | Source control answers (pdf, 1 page, 492 KB)
- Sheet 7: How does ventilation work? [experiment] (pdf, 2 pages, 1.6 MB)
- Sheet 8: Home air scavenger hunt (pdf, 4 pages, 7.2 MB)
- Sheet 9: What can you do? (pdf, 3 pages, 1.1 MB)
- Stickers: 1 A4 sheet (pdf, 1 page, 1.1 MB)
Health related activity sheets
- Activity 1: Ask about asthma (pdf, 1 page, 580 KB) | Ask about asthma answers (pdf, 1 page, 452 KB)
- Activity 2: Spot the triggers (pdf, 1 page, 1.1 MB) | Spot the triggers answers (pdf, 2 pages, 1.4 MB)
Climate change activity sheets
- Activity 1: Climate Change (pdf, 2 pages, 826 KB) -overview, exercises but no answer sheet required
- Activity 2: Flooding (pdf, 2 pages, 3.5 MB) -includes activity and answer sheets
Monitoring exercises
For teachers and parents with indoor air quality monitoring devices:
- Measuring Indoor Air, Activities for teachers introduction (pdf, 1 page, 220 KB)
- Monitoring exercise 1: What affects my home air? (pdf, 1 page, 199 KB)
- Monitoring exercise 2: Particle source spot tests (pdf, 2 pages, 227 KB)
- Monitoring exercise 3: VOCs source spot tests (pdf, 2 pages, 276 KB)
- Monitoring exercise 4: Ventilation spot tests (pdf, 2 pages, 277 KB)
- Activity diary sheet – for the room the monitor is placed in (pdf, 1 page, 425 KB)
Complete pack for teachers
If you’re a teacher and would like to involve your pupils in the whole series, we’ve brought the worksheets together in a single file.
- Download the Junior air quality scientist pack (pdf, 27 pages, 17 MB). This pack does not contain the climate change worksheets.
- Download the Junior air quality scientist pack including exercises for an IAQ monitoring device (pdf, 36 pages, 18MB) Please note there are 2 errors in the answer sheets within this we are in the process of correcting. Please use the individual answer sheets above for Spot the Signs and Control the Source activities. This pack does not contain the climate change worksheets.
- Download the WELLHOME project Junior air quality scientist pack including exercises for an IAQ monitoring device (pdf, 26 pages, 12MB) contains slightly adjusted combination including extra exercise on What is in Dirty Air. Please note it does not contain the Asthma and climate change worksheets.