The Cleanest Cleaning Products

• Host a classroom activity in which the class determines which cleaning products are the most environmentally friendly. Before beginning the activity, give students a lesson about cleaning chemicals and their impact on air pollution and health. Explain to students the difference between healthy cleaning agents and the ones that are toxic. Healthy and all-natural ingredients for cleaning products include baking soda, lemon juice and vinegar. Begin the activity by splitting the students into teams and giving each team a cleaning product to analyze. The groups must analyze the product by looking at the ingredients to determine if it can potentially contribute to air pollution. Have students continue the activity by evaluating the types of cleaning products their parents keep at home.
  
  

Carpool Campaign

• Have your students study how cars and other motor vehicles impact air pollution. Split students into teams or have them work individually to find out how much pollution, on average, motor vehicles cause by driving on the road. Have students look on the internet for statistics. Then, ask them to figure out how much pollution could be avoided by riding bicycles and have them present you with the statistics. For the second half of this activity, have students work in teams to create a carpool campaign. Provide them with poster board and art supplies so that they can make a poster that summarizes their campaign. Have them present the campaign to the class using some of the statistics that were researched.
  
  

Surveys

• For a classroom activity on air pollution, you and your class can create a survey to administer to other students in the school regarding air pollution. The survey may have questions about how many students walk or ride their bikes to school, how many carpool or how many drive their own cars. The class can use the results of the survey to determine whether or not the school, as a whole, is eco-friendly.
  
  

Word Games

• Word games are quiet activities for students to do individually. Come up with word games that use terms related to air pollution and the environment. Work those words into puzzles and games such as crossword puzzles, word scrambles, hangman or word searches. Give students some quiet time at the end of the day to work on these word activities.