Our toolkit provides teachers with everything they need to deliver engaging ‘clean-air’ lessons, undertake hands on activities, deliver school assemblies and engage the whole school community about air pollution.

Pick and choose from the toolkit which is broken down into four sections:

1.  Inform - educate your pupils and yourself about air quality and idling
2.  Investigate - find out about the extent of the problem at your school
3.  Involve - share what you’ve learnt with the whole school community
4. Improve - take action to reduce idling and make the air cleaner at your school 

The toolkit is linked to the national curriculum so could form part of curriculum time. Use all sections and select appropriate activities. 

Alternatively use the ‘inform’ section to raise the issue with the whole school via an assembly and then skip to the ‘involve’ section.

Access the Clean Air School Toolkit for Teachers.

Borrow our hand-held monitors and microscopes

Bring science to life using the toolkit and borrow our hand-held monitors and microscopes to help run some of the investigate activities. Kit is limited so please plan ahead. Email activetravel@bcpcouncil.gov.uk.

The Clean Air Schools Toolkit for Teachers PDF - download

Inform

• Infant presentation video
• Junior presentation video
• Infants PowerPoint presentation – to deliver yourself
• Junior PowerPoint presentation – to deliver yourself

Investigate 

• Where does air quality come from
• Lichen hunt worksheet
• Lichen ID opal worksheet
• Explore your air
• Idling count
• Diffusion tubes
• An airmazing nanoadventures

Involve 

• Competition guidance sheet
• Facts to share on air quality
• Idling impact leaflet
• Idling awareness Infants
• Idling awareness Juniors
• Idling poem
• Banner for emails and newsletters
• Pledge cards

Improve

• Large school gates printable banner 1m x 3m. We’ll provide you with a 1m x 3m PVC copy of the banner (whilst stocks last) to display at your school to remind drivers why they should switch off their engines when stopped.
• School Travel policy template
• Personalised school travel policy

We’d love to hear about your campaign

Email activetravel@bcpcouncil.gov.uk with examples of your campaign (such as some of the children’s work) at your school. 

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