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Grades 9-12

Gasping for Clean Air

This reading must be purchased as part of a lesson packet or as part of a full curriculum that is available in our store.

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SUBJECTS: Science, Social Studies

TOPICS: Air Pollution, Global Change, Public Health

Resource Overview

Air pollution background reading: An overview of how fossil fuel combustion creates unhealthful levels of several pollutants in the air we breathe.

Exhaustion from cars on the road, a major source of pollution.

How Do I Get This Reading?

This reading must be purchased as part of a lesson packet or as part of a full curriculum that is available in our store.

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