Educational Resources

Adult Resources

Air Pollution Can Affect Your Health [PDF] - Learn how air pollution can affect your health, what symptoms to look for and what you can do to protect your health.
Air Quality Index Bookmark - Use this colorful bookmark as a quick guide for understanding the Air Quality Index and checking the daily air quality.
Air Repair - brochure [PDF 3469KB]
Air Quality Index Poster with arrow - Great for displaying the daily air quality in your office, clinic or school!
Celebrating 40 Years of Cleaner Air - To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act this piece highlights how air quality has improved over the last 40 years.
Creating the right atmosphere: Approaches that staved off acid rain set the stage to tackle today's air challenges [PDF 1480KB]. This 16-page supplement celebrates the success of Wisconsin's acid rain efforts, examines the lessons learned from the experience, and applies these lessons to the air quality challenges such as climate change and mercury that face Wisconsin today.
Do A Little... Save A Lot! It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air

Air, Air Everywhere - Teachers use this guide to teach about the composition of air, what air pollution is, where it comes from, and what we can do about it. The ten teacher-led, hands-on activities in this guide are aimed at 3rd through 5th grades, but can be adapted for other levels.

Air Defenders: The Quest for Clean Air [exit DNR] - A community educational resources on open burning, air quality and respiratory health for teachers, health officials, and other non-formal educators. Air Defenders is an interdisciplinary, multi-media educational program organized as a kit and web site. Kids team up with the Air Defenders - Seeker, Identifyre and Recyclotron - to pursue their quest: to clean the air and protect community health. Air Defenders to the rescue!

Air Defenders coloring book [PDF 376KB] - With this book, kids will have fun coloring while learning from the Air Defenders characters, Seeker, Identifyer and Recyclotron, what they can do to clean the air through recycling, composting, turning off the lights, and more.

Clean Air, Healthy Children [PDF 1255KB] -- Introduce preschool through third grade children to the concepts of respiratory health, air quality, and caring for the environment with these in-class and take-home activities.
- Aire Limpio, Niños Saludables (Clean Air, Healthy Children - in Spanish) [PDF 1231KB]
Climate Change: A Wisconsin Activity Guide - A resource for teachers to help students develop the knowledge and skills needed to become informed and active participants in society’s climate change discussions. It touches on both the scientific aspects of climate change and social issues.
Education Connection [PDF 192KB] - Order form for all DNR educational materials.
Environmental Education for Kids! (EEK!)
- EEK! Teacher Resources
Give Burn Barrels the Boot! [PDF 259KB] - Use this guide filled with background information, activities and facts to teach children about open burning, air quality and human respiratory health.
Where's the Air? - Teachers activity guide that introduces students to the concept of atmospheric structure and the formation ground level ozone.
XRT - eXtraordinary Road Trip [exit DNR] - Start your computers and let the adventure begin! XRT: eXtraordinary Road Trip is an educational computer game designed to teach players how to analyze the transporation variables affecting air quality. XRT is thought-provoking, competitive and fun edutainment for drivers of all ages.

Kids of all ages learn about air quality through these fun games and puzzles. All downloads are in PDF format.

For more information or to order copies of any of these materials, download our Air Quality Publications Checklist [PDF] and mail it to the address listed, or email DNRAirEducation@wisconsin.gov.

Last Reviewed: May 2011
Next Review: May 2012
Last Revised: Monday September 19 2011