Air Care

With a grant from the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the Think Earth Foundation provided free instructional materials on air quality to 332 middle-school science teachers throughout Southern California during the spring of 2007.

Each teacher received an Air Care class set containing: 

• Teacher’s Manual
• Air Care 101 Video
• 100 copies of “The Last Gasp Gazette” newspaper
• Clean Air Schools Competition Guidelines

In the program, students learned:

• the causes of air pollution
• the effects of air pollution on our health
• what’s been done to control air emissions
• what technological solutions lie ahead
• what people can do as citizens, consumers, and drivers to help care for the air.

To participate in the Clean Air Schools competition, students used recommendations from their Think Earth Environmental Surveys for either school or home to write and submit Environmental Improvement Plans. Sixth-grade students at The Pegasus School in Huntington Beach won the top award of $300 for a plan based on their school survey. Sixth-graders from Dotson Intermediate School in Rancho Palos Verdes won for a plan based on their home surveys.

Air Care Classes

A Clean Air School certificate and a check for $300 are presented to teacher Caroll Spencer and students at Dodson Intermediate School in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Teacher Jaime Kunze with her 6th grade students and Think Earth representatives during awards ceremony at The Pegasus School in Huntington Beach