The Air Isn’t Fair

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org
Celebrating Earth Day Gifts

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org
Community Research: A Catalyst for Social Impact?

The chants of “I can’t breathe” have faded from our streets, but there are many who still suffer from polluted air in our communities, homes, and schools.

Cool Green Schools is creating a network of air quality monitoring at schools across different communities in Maryland. We are offering over 200 air quality monitors to schools so their students can study the indoor and outdoor air quality at their schools.

We don’t stop there. We help students to identify and reduce asthma triggers, how to build low-cost air filters, and how to benchmark the environmental conditions at their schools and homes.

Why is this important?

The health of our students doesn’t start or end at our school doors. When our students learn to identify and reduce asthma triggers at school, they can create healthier conditions as their schools and apply these skills to their homes, where they spend even more of their time.

What can we gain?

Students will learn to study and improve their environments with professional tools and scientific methods.

We expect to lower asthma-related absences and improve student performance.

Our network of monitors will give us a much better understanding of air quality in different neighborhoods and schools.

To join this project, please contact:

Shan Gordon Cool Green Schools cell: 410-336-8239 shan@coolgreenschools.org

The Air Isn’t Fair

After protest chants of “I can’t breath!,” have faded from our streets, we can look at another important social and equity issue: Poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) affecting millions of students in our schools. For decades, schools–especially schools in low income districts–have been failing to provide students with the level of air quality which we…
Celebrating Earth Day Gifts

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Experiment YOU

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In the experiment of our lives, we are either the lab rat or the scientist. This is an important choice. Scientists win Nobel prizes. Things go badly for rats.

– Shan

Experiment You
Engages students as scientists, innovators and engineers their own life experiment.

How can you become stronger and healthier?
How can you learn and remember more?
How can you create successful futures for yourself and your community?
Students will choose one personal goal and one group goal.
Students create baseline measurements of where they start, develop a plan and chart their progress as they work to accomplishing these goals.
Teachers and parents can also join in, developing their own plans to accomplish their goals. It is important that students see adults working to achieve goals. And there is no better enforcement mechanism than a classroom of students looking over their teachers progress.

Experiment you enables students to use their own observations, learning and problem solving skills
to solve problems that matter to them.

Try this for a month in your classroom..and let us know how your experiment comes out.

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