What are we doing?

• Measuring the air quality around your school

• Measuring the weather around your school

• Pupils are collecting some of the data

• Pupils will then be helping to analyse the data How are we doing it?

• With small sensors that measure the amount of certain gases in the air

• The gases we measure are mainly produced by traffic

• Students in your school are measuring the weather at the same time

• These students will then help the scientists analyse the data

Why do we care?• In high levels pollution can cause

problems with human health, especially for anyone with problems with their lungs or heart

• A person in the UK has their life expectancy cut short by 6 months because of air pollution

• Air pollution also damages our environment

What’s in the air that you breathe?

A. Air quality tells you how clean or dirty the air you breathe is

Q. What

is air quality?

What can you do to help?

• Drive your car less• Cycle, walk or use public

transport more• Make sure your car is

working efficiently- your emissions will get checked at an MOT

• Compost garden waste instead of burning it

This work has been funded by NERC and the OKFN Follow the air quality group on twitter @AirQualityULeic :

https://twitter.com/AirQualityULeicOr visit our website: http://www.leos.le.ac.uk/aq/

Q. What

is the air

made up of?

Answer…