Today is Clean Air Day and schools across the country are gearing up to make a difference to air pollution.
Raise awareness of clean air
Today’s Climate Action Countdown challenge is about raising awareness about the importance of clean air and how it can help protect our health and the environment.
Here’s our Clean Air Day action plan!
For outdoor air pollution
Walk, cycle, scoot or take public transport whenever you can instead of driving
Discover the side streets – use quieter streets and avoid main roads
Go electric – ask your parents to think about making their next car an electric one!
Don’t idle – ask your parents to turn off their engines when the car isn’t moving – you can let them know it’s against the law to leave their car idling!
For indoor air pollution
Open windows to let the fresh air in – especially when cooking or cleaning
Use fragrance-free milder cleaning products
Ask your parents to only burn dry, well-seasoned wood or smokeless fuel on your stove, open fire or BBQ.
Can you think of anymore? How about around your school? What could you do to help have cleaner air in your school and in your community?
Q&A:
Q: What is air pollution?
A: Air pollution is lots of little particles in the air (some smaller than the width of a human hair) that can cause harm to our bodies. The more particles we breathe in, the greater harm to our health. There are sources of air pollution both indoors and outdoors.
Q: Where do you think air pollution comes from?
A: Air pollution comes from lots of different sources, like industry, farming and when we have fires at home or in the garden, but most air pollution comes from vehicles like cars, vans and lorries.
Q: How does it affect us?
A: Air pollution can affect your brain and mental health which can impact your ability to learn. Think of when you’ve been in a stuffy room in which the air quality is poor – it can be hard to concentrate.
When we breathe polluted air, small pollution particles can enter through our lungs and can impact your breathing. It can also cause asthma or make it worse.
The good news is, is that we can fix it by doing lots of different things to make sure we can have healthier and happier lives!
Q: What kind of things can we do to help lessen air pollution?
Find out more
If you’d like to do more for Clean Air Day, click here!
Want to do more? Spotlight on Global Action Plan
Global Action Plan is a charity that’s working for a green and thriving planet where people enjoy their lives within the Earth’s resources. Transform Our World is their online, centralised, quality-rated resource hub to help teachers to bring environmental action into the classroom. It provides opportunities for students to lead impactful projects that tackle the root causes of the climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. The range of curriculum-linked, low prep resources is teacher-reviewed and tested, to ensure it is as easy as possible for teachers to channel the excitement around climate action into schools-based activities.
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