In this article, we present an inquiry unit for fourth- and
fifth-grade classrooms designed to build students’ understanding
of trash pollution, discover its environmental effects,
and communicate how people in their community can
reduce those effects. It was created as a collaboration between
a team of fourth-grade teachers and an ecology research
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research and communication skills, using trash pollution as
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their research to create a public service announcement to report
pollution findings and possible solutions that could be
shared with other students and the community.
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A study of fluid dynamics and human physiology factors driving droplet dispersion from a human sneeze
- Award ID(s):
- 2031227
- PAR ID:
- 10201468
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Institute of Physics
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Fluids
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 11
- ISSN:
- 1070-6631
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- Article No. 111904
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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