The Search for Secret Agents
Students investigate indoor air pollutionCopyright Pixabay http://pixabay.com/p-316524/?no_redirect
Students embark on a scavenger hunt around their school looking for indoor air pollution and mapping source locations.
Engineers research indoor air quality to identify and characterize the health risks associated with exposures to indoor air pollutants, individually and in combination. Once identified, engineers work to design technologies that improve indoor air quality. This might include designing better air filters, improving HVAC circulation in a new building design, making sure parking lot emissions do not enter a building's fresh-air intake, and designing materials that do not produce off-gases or pollutants.
After this activity, students should be able to:
- Predict and observe sources of indoor air pollution (IAP).
- Understand and give examples of technologies we use related to IAP.
- Tabulate and graph sources of indoor air pollution.
- Describe how engineers interact with indoor air pollutants.