Students will be able to:

1. Practice the process of making public policy decisions.

2. Develop a strategy or plan to mitigate a real-world air quality problem.

3. Recognize that different people have different perspectives on the same air quality issue and that solutions involve compromise and trade-offs.

4. Develop a sense of personal empowerment to address air quality issues.

Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations:

Middle School:

MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

High School:

HS-LS4-6. Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.

HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.

HS-ETS1-3. Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including costs, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.

HS-ETS1-1. Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.