Welcome to our In the Know topic for September, Air Quality Index. You may wish to take a look at other grade spans and recommend articles to students that are below or above their grade’s reading level.
Grades K-1 look at what air quality is and what to do if air quality is bad. A Spanish translation can be found here.
Grades 2-3 examine how the Air Quality Index is determined. A Spanish translation to the article may be found here.
Grades 4-5 investigate how wildfires in Canada might affect air quality in the United States. A Spanish translation to the article may be found here.
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Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using GOES 16 imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).
