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CARE4AIR ENDORSED ON NATIONAL EDUCATION WEBSITE
November 2009
The award winning Care4Air website is now being used to teach secondary school pupils across the UK after being endorsed by the National Curriculum Twenty First Century Science project on their website: www.21stcenturyscience.org
The Care4Air sub-site �Learn to Care4Air� has been included as a recommended learning resource for GCSE students. Teachers can visit the Twenty First Century Science website to view recommended teaching resources for use in the classroom.
Over 900 schools in England and Wales are using Twenty First Century Science resources to teach pupils. Since �Learn to Care4Air� was first launched in March, over 500 visits to the sub-site have been recorded.
King Ecgbert School in Sheffield has been using the sub-site for over two months. There are over 90 pupils using the �Learn to Care4Air� pages and all pupils are at the Key Stage 4 level and are aged 14 � 16 years old.
�Learn to Care4Air� contains comprehensive information about:
- air pollutants
- using diffusion tubes
- comparing and interpreting air quality data
- greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect
- calculating a carbon footprint
- fine particles, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone
Dr Paul Cropper, Head of Chemistry at King Ecgbert School, Sheffield, said: �The �Learn to Care4Air� website is incredibly useful for young people. There is a large amount of insightful information and it is all written in accessible language.
�I think the website is clearly signposted and easily navigated and it is not overloaded with complex information. One of the modules the pupils are completing centres around air pollution, so we have found this page particularly helpful. Young people will now have a better grasp of how air quality is being monitored and through sites like Care4Air, will realise through studying how important air quality issues are.�
The Care4Air website is already known as one of the most dynamic of its kind in the country. Last year the website won the accolade for the top air quality website from national magazine �Air Quality Bulletin� for the fourth time in five years.