Air Quality and Community Health
https://www.cdc.gov/video/climate-health/CDC-AirQuality_v1a-sd.mp4
https://www.cdc.gov/video/climate-health/CDC-AirQuality_v1a-sd.mp4
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Video length is 0:48 min
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Teaching Tips
- More information on air quality and community health is available on the CDC website, including a wide range of teaching tools, content pdfs, and related videos.
- This short video clip is part of a longer video series titled How Climate Effects Community Health.
About the Content
- This short video uses information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to describe how increasing global temperatures can lead to unhealthy air quality.
- The video lists at-risk populations and steps communities can take to prepare.
- Comments from expert scientist: Explains how air quality can change with climate change at a very high-level but doesn't explain in details about how climate change can increase the density of dangerous particles in the air. What are these particles? How?
About the Pedagogy
- The video clip is a short and engaging animation to be used a part of a lesson or discussion on air quality and climate change.
- The CDC website has more resources to explore on this topic, including information on the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework.
