Awesome Air Story Time
Through the reading of two books, I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb and Stars Beneath Your Bed--The Surprising Story of Dust by April Pulley Sayre, students gain a better understanding about the characteristics of air, airborne dust, and the importance of keeping the air healthy. Students will assist with experiments and act out dust producing activities.
Time: 60 minutes
Accommodations: table for demonstration
Awesome Air & Stomp Rockets
Through a short lecture/discussion, demonstration, and a FUN stomp rocket activity, participants will learn about the air pollutants of concern in the Tucson area, where pollution comes from, how breathing air pollution may affect our health, and what we can do to keep the air and environment healthy. Staff may use props such as healthy and simulated unhealthy pig’s lungs. Staff will guide participants in making their very own stomp rockets that they can keep, and with stomp rocket assemblies, use the power of air to launch rockets for the remainder of the presentation.
Time: 60 minutes
Accommodations: table for demonstration, work surface for students, shaded outside area
Little Green Riding Hood
In a storytelling format, the presenter adapts a longtime favorite tale to share information about “green” living. The story delves into home energy use and transportation, two major sources of air pollution and greenhouse gases, as well other sources and environmental issues (like recycling) as Little Green Riding Hood leaves her village and scampers through the woods to her grandmother’s house. The presenter uses props to enhance delivery, and opens the presentation up for discussion of environmental issues, focusing on actions we can take and products we can use to be more “green.”
Time: 45-60 minutes
Accommodations: table for props
The Lorax
Through the reading of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, the audience will enjoy the wondrous world of Truffula Trees, Humming Fish and Brown Bar-ba-loots to highlight the effects of our use of Earth’s resources. Discussion follows with a series of questions designed to encourage thoughtful conversation of wise use of resources to protect the land, water, air and human health.
Time: 45-60 minutes
Accommodations: table for props