Teaching Grade 4 Air Pollution Geography: A Sustainability Project

This project focuses on teaching air pollution to Grade 4 students within a geography context, emphasizing sustainability. It outlines a five-day teaching plan, covering topics such as the definition of air pollution, pollutants, causes, effects, and prevention methods. The project includes learning outcomes, teaching briefs for each day, a student assessment quiz, and a list of resources like National Geographic YouTube channels and relevant websites. It also suggests a project for students to enhance their understanding of air pollution. The aim is to provide teachers with a comprehensive guide and resources to effectively educate young students about air pollution and its impact on the environment. Desklib is a valuable resource for students, offering access to past papers and solved assignments.

Teaching Air pollution
Geography - Sustainability
Topic – Air Pollution for teaching Grade 4 Students
Website Address -
https://greenleafleaf.wixsite.com/-air-pollution.
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Teaching Geography to Students of Grade -4
Geography is a discipline of science that is devoted to the study of land , features , residents ,
flora –fauna of that place and studying the various phenomena of Earth and planets . It also helps
to study the relationship between environment and people. Grade -4 students are very young kids
and naturally they are in process of exploring about new things , teaching Geography to these
kids require a different type of approach that makes them learning about the various topics in
geography interesting. In any teaching the biggest tool is the knowledge of subject here
Geography . A teacher can only teach confidently when he/she has good hold on his/her subject
Then the next step will be to how to teach in interesting manner. Some of key steps suggested by
senior academia’s is as follows-
 Making a proper lesson plan for teaching like what topics are going to be covered in this
session while teaching to the kids of a particular chapter or topic.
 Small kids of grade 4 love to study with the help of visual materials such as charts ,
videos of actual location, globe , maps etc.
 Developing the interest among students by giving them opportunity to ask questions and
giving their answers in interesting manner .
 Another important tool is to give personal experiences , stories and other facts about
the concerned topic.
 Developing a project for student related to the concerned topic also helps in teaching
effectively.
Topic – Air pollution
Learning outcome
 The students will get detailed information about Air pollution.
 Then students will learn about the air pollutants.
 Students will learn about the main factors that creates the air pollution.
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 The students will learn about the effects of air pollution.
 Then the prevention methods will be learned by students.
 Further the detail of indoor air pollution will be given.
 At the end some facts about air pollution will be taught.
Day 1 – Teaching Brief
What is Air Pollution?
Air pollution occurs when gas , dust , particles , smog and odor is introduced in the atmosphere
that is harmful for human beings , animals and plants in that surrounding. This makes air
contaminated or we can say dirty.
Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air that is made of various types of gases called
atmosphere. This atmosphere helps to protect the Earth and allows life to exist in it. Without this
atmosphere the days will be very intense . These particles and additional gases will create
misbalance in the atmosphere .
What is air pollutant ?
Things that pollute the air is called air pollutant . The examples of air pollutant are nitrogen
oxide , carbon monoxide , hydrocarbons , sand and dust particles , organic compounds etc..
There are two types of Pollutants –
1. Primary Pollutant – These are the pollutants that are directly pumped in the atmosphere
and makes it unclean. These include the carbon monoxide mainly coming out of
automobiles and burning of coal.
2. Secondary pollutant – It occurs when pollutants get mix with the chemical reaction and
form the dangerous pollutant in environment. Example of such pollutant is photochemical
smog.
Day-2 Teaching brief
What causes air pollution?
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Air pollution is caused by both human and natural factors caused by human being . The human
activities that causes the air pollution are as follows-
 Gases emitting from the factories , automobiles and other industries.
 Gases emitting out due to burning of fossil fuels.
 House hold burning of fuels and other activities.
What are affects of air pollution?
1. .Air pollution creates many health problems including problem in breathing.
2. It also causes irritation in eyes.
3. The air pollution creates the Acidic rain too.
The acid rain is caused by acidification in the atmosphere that is caused by the chemical
reactions that created the acidic compounds in the atmosphere. This happens when for example
when sulfuric acid combines with water droplets that make up the cloud and forming the acidic
rain. Acidic rain destroys the leaves of the plants.
Day-3 Teaching Brief
How can Air pollution be controlled?
The government is doing many efforts in controlling the air pollution by doing a strict check for
pollution in the vehicles , industries and factories by imposing laws and fines. Along with this
new types of fuels have been created like solar energy etc for reducing the usage of fossil fuels.
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What are fact files of Air pollution effects.
Day -4 Teaching Brief
What are the methods of preventing air pollution?
The various methods for preventing the air pollution are to use alternative sources of fuels in
the automobiles and industries. Along with it is required to follow the techniques prescribed by
the pollution control division to check the level of pollution and techniques to prevent the
pollution.
Project for Air Pollution
Day -5 Teaching Brief
Student assessment quiz
Resources
1. National geographic you tube channel for air pollution
2. Video link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Q7y_xjR5E
3. Video link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAKyhfxxr7s.
4. Video link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWvbui6ook.
5. Website – www.discovery.com/airpollution.
6. Website- https://www.geography.org.uk/Making-Geography-Happen--Teacher-Tips.
7. Website - https://eschooltoday.com/pollution/air-pollution/air-pollution-prevention.html.
8. Website - https://study.com/academy/lesson/air-pollution-lesson-for-kids-definition-
facts.html.
References
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Phil.C .(2005), Teaching Geography , Gulford Publication
Basha .S , (2011), Teaching Geography , Discovery Publication
Andy.L , (2000) , 100 ways of teaching Geography , Blooms burry publication
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