Monday, 31 March 2025

Clean Air festival topics and activities

Make a plan for your display : Create a strategy to invite people to come to your booth and make a plan to engage the interest of your audience

TOPICS: 

1. take CO2 levels in different school rooms show pics of result.  

Make a poster describing the CO2 levels in different areas of the school or home or in any other places of your choosing.  Also, include the following information in your poster

Good ventilation health effects Lancet article on designing infectious disease resilience in schools. pic1 of ventilation benefits 



Health Canada summary of ventilation as source of pic2 on CO2 harms

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/healthy-living/residential-indoor-air-quality-guidelines-carbon-dioxide.html 

taking readings for aranet 4 

Look at Al Haddrell's videos on how CO2 influences the stability of SARS-CoV-2

and especially consider the effect of climate change 

2. build a CR box write clear instructions for how to make a  CR box 

2.a Clean Air Crew instructions for CR box , note instructions on the single filter model


2.b CR boxes can reduce illness in classrooms by removing germs floating in the air . A news article summarizing  the scientific research 


  Air filters can reduce absence due to illness in Sweden




3.  Outdoor and Indoor air pollution. PM 2.5 from indoor and outdoor sources . What are the effects of wildfire smoke affect on health. make a poster & a physical creative display out of wood & human body model . 

Great visual on PM 2.5



4.  historical CO2 levels NASA and NOAA data shows changes in CO2 over time. Make a poster of Climate change & a physical creative display of the earth & CO2 & using props  

5.  Performance options: 
Do some busking at the festival:  
Or help run a button making station or...your choice

6.  Co-design a sustainable future: Be an artist for the festival 
CREATE A DREAM FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
TOPICS can include  transportation , living in your house, work, shopping , gathering, recreation 

7.  Create sustainability buttons for the Clean Air festival.  Use the button maker from the library

8.   Make a project on carbon capture using algae 

9.  Create a poster on using kinetic energy to charge electric devices 

10.  Create a poster on the impacts of climate change on a particular location 





Online resources:

fire smoke forecast 

Clean Air Crew instructions for CR box , note instructions on the single filter model


CR boxes can reduce illness in classrooms by removing germs floating in the air . A news article summarizing  the scientific research 


Air filters can reduce absence due to illness in Sweden


Fraser health summary of wildfire smoke health effects



CO2 levels 

Good ventilation health effects Lancet article on designing infectious disease resilience in schools. pic1 of ventilation benefits 



Health Canada summary of ventilation as source of pic2 on CO2 harms


taking readings for aranet 4 



Thursday, 6 March 2025

Practice Drawing Bohr Diagram and Lewis Diagram


   

You will practice drawing Bohr Diagrams and Lewis diagrams.   You can practice this by working through  this Study guide on the same topic  and the Answer key   or you can work on any worksheets provided in class.


Monday, 3 March 2025

liver or potato enzyme lab

 


In the human body, ENZYMES help speed up chemical reactions. 

Today we take a piece of raw pork liver and add it to Hydrogen Peroxide.  Raw liver contains an enzyme called "catalase" which has a job of breaking the bonds in hydrogen peroxide.  When those bonds are broken, atoms rearrange themselves and new products are formed.  

In the lab, we discover the new products

Dry Ice lab: Solid CO2

 



you did  a solid carbon dioxide lab