Free Help for Teaching About the Environment

Pima County Environmental Quality provides FREE, customized classroom and youth group presentations to assist educators in teaching their students about the environment. Topics include air quality, solid waste management/recycling, pollution prevention, climate change, and going green. 

PDEQ education programs help meet at least the following standards as primary objectives, and may help meet additional standards in other areas such as language arts and social studies.

Science Strand 1 Concept 1: Observations, Questions, and Hypotheses

Science Strand 1 Concept 3: Analysis and Conclusions

Science Strand 3 Concept 1: Changes in Environments

Science Strand 6 Concept 3 (K-4): Changes in the Earth and Sky

Comprehensive Health Standard

Classroom/youth group demonstrations/presentations for all grades

Curricula packets for grades 1-12 in English

Lesson Plan: Air Quality Presentation for Youth (Grades K-3) (PDF)

Lesson Plan: Lesson Plan: Airborne Dust Control Presentation for Youth (Grades 4-8) (PDF)

Lesson Plan: Air Quality Presentation for Youth (Grades 9-12) (PDF)

Curricula packets for grades 1-8 in Spanish

Informational brochures

Clean Air Activity Trunk and Video for K-3 (for loan)

Air Care 101 Video for middle-school (for loan)

Save Planet Polluto CD-ROM for all ages (for loan)

Kids for Clean Air for ages 4-12

AirInfoNow activities

Airville - a Flash activity to show how we HELP and HURT our air.

PDEQ Environmental Education Resources Flyer (PDF)

Earth Education Workshops - For information contact Wendy Burroughs at Pima County Natural Resources Parks & Recreation. Wendy can be reached at 520.877.6122

50 Ways to Green the Earth Posters
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English	Spanish

 

Everybody needs clean air. Do your share! 
For more information on any program, 
or to request services, call 724-7446.