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Try these activities then send your results to TQPollution@mail.tccsa.net. We will try to post results so that we may compare results. Please be sure to tell us the city and state you are writing from!
Light
How To Tell If Your Community Has Light Pollution:
How do you know if your community has light pollution? Take a look at the sky
after the sun has set. Do the clouds glow pink? While that may look pretty –
the pink clouds mean there's too much light in the sky.
Air
Materials
Plastic cup 3/4 filled with gravel
food coloring
Plastic cup with holes in the bottom
Plastic cup 3/4 filled with water
Plastic cup
Pump dispenser form lotion soap bottle
Step 1
Put food coloring in the water so that it isn't clear.
Step 2
Hold the cup with holes in the bottom over the cup containing the gravel
and pour enough water to fill the gravel filled cup until all but a cm of the
gravel
is saturated. What do you think the in the gravel filled cup represents?