Air Quality and Community Health

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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 [link https://cleanet.org/resources/57227.html 'How Climate Effects Community Health.']
• About the Science
  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.
• Technical Details/Ease of Use
  Video length is 0:48 min