Air quality project brief and activities

These pages introduce the area being monitored for air quality and show the progress of the students through their project (May - July 2004). The diagram below shows how many of the anticipated school sessions we have completed. Scroll down or click on a link below for more information on some of the sessions and activities.

Project brief and some session tasks
Activity output by session

Project brief

Brighton aspires to be a clean air tourist destination, with the city attracting thousands of visitors a year. Imagine that the tourist information office in partnership with Brighton & Hove council has asked you to monitor local air quality for various pollutants to check the city is on course for receiving a number of awards. Your task is to survey the area around Varndean School over the next 6 weeks, and report back your findings in the middle of July. You will work in small groups of 4 over a series of half hour sessions each week.

Session 1: Introduction to the project, background research.
Session 2: Planning and conducting data collection.
Session 3: Annotating data using the user interface that combines CO and video.
Session 4: Review and plan data collection 2.
Session 5: Data collection 2
Session 6: Annotate new data
Session 7: Communicate with expert / prepare presentations
Session 8: Communicate with Nottingham classroom / give presentations

Output by session

Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Hypothesising and data collection
Session 3: Annotation
Session 4: Review annotation, plan data collection 2
Session 5: Data collection 2
Session 6: Annotate new data
Session 7: Communicate with expert / prepare presentations
Session 8: Communicate with Nottingham classroom / give presentations

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