Using the UK Air quality archive in Primary Schools

在小学使用英国空气质量档案

• 批准号: BB/T018933/1
• 负责人: Dudley Shallcross
• 金额: $ 2.57万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FT018933%2F1
• 关键词: Using; UK; Air; quality; archive

Air quality and climate change are two of the most pressing issues in the 21st century. In the U.K. the impact of air pollution in urban areas in particular on children is well known. The youngest children e.g. those attending primary school in the U.K. (aged between 4-11) are often those who are affected most by air pollution, given their height relative to vehicle pollution sources and the physical development they experience during primary school. However, primary school children, their teachers and other stakeholders of their school often feel helpless to alter their own exposure, either through using 'cleaner' routes to school or by understanding how to reduce air pollution levels in their vicinity. The U.K. Air Quality Archive is one of the most comprehensive archives of pollutant data in the world. It contains some 400 million datapoints and has extensive geographical and temporal coverage, dating back even to the 1970s. The pollutants measured are mainly of primary origin, i.e. they are directly emitted by pollution sources, but does also contain data from secondary sources such as ozone. It is mistakenly assumed that primary school children are incapable of stepping up to engage in science investigations but this is not true. What is true is that their teachers are not empowered with information, resources and training to hep to guide these young learners who are extremely curious about the world around them and for many are acutely aware of the problems of air pollution and their impacts on health. The Primary Science Teaching Trust are a U.K. based charity that support the teaching of science at primary school level through a wide range of ways. Most notably, PSTT run the Primary Science Teacher of the Year Award and those teachers that win this award are inducted as Fellows to the PSTT virtual College. These outstanding teachers of science at primary school level have initiated and run numerous projects that use the Outdoor classroom and some have utilized a wide range of low-cost sensors. PSTT now employ some of these Fellows on a full-time and part-time basis and the plan with this short 4 month project is to bring these outstanding teachers together with air quality researchers at the University of Bristol to explore the database. The group will then devise investigations suitable for key stage 2 (upper and lower), children that are 7-11 years of age, using data from the database, prepare datasets that schools can use with resources but also guide teachers in how to use the database. In addition, the PSTT Fellows involved will disseminate these resources to other Fellows and schools that they work with during the course of the project and will continue to work on this project when it ceases in April 2020. Therefore, there will be the start of an on-going project with primary schools. The database and its investigations will help this group to understand the sources of pollution, to determine clean and polluted routes to and from school and who knows, these young researchers may uncover some interesting features of these data that have been overlooked. Empowering this group with the ability to investigate for themselves will raise aspirations, allow this cohort, who will have to deal with these issues for the rest of their lives, to understand the problems from a young age and to help them devise ways to alleviate their exposure and reduce pollution levels. Resources developed will be freely available from the PSTT website and further training for teachers will be available through the PSTT Regional Mentor programme, that supports full-time Fellows to work with schools in their region.

空气质量和气候变化是21世纪最紧迫的两个问题。在英国，空气污染在城市地区尤其是对儿童的影响。最小的孩子，例如那些在英国上小学（4-11岁）上小学的人通常是那些受空气污染影响最大的人，因为它们的身高相对于车辆污染来源及其在小学期间所经历的身体发展。但是，小学生，他们的老师和学校的其他利益相关者通常会通过使用“清洁剂”路线上的学校或了解如何降低其附近空气污染水平来改变自己的接触。英国空气质量档案馆是世界上最全面的污染物数据档案之一。它包含约4亿个数据点，并具有广泛的地理和时间覆盖范围，甚至可以追溯到1970年代。所测量的污染物主要是主要起源，即它们是由污染源直接发射的，但也包含来自少量来源（例如臭氧）的数据。错误地认为，小学生无法加紧进行科学调查，但事实并非如此。正确的是，他们的老师没有能够为HEP提供信息，资源和培训，以指导这些年轻的学习者对周围的世界感到非常好奇，并且对于许多人来说，他们敏锐地意识到空气污染的问题及其对健康的影响。初级科学教学信托基金是一家位于英国的慈善机构，该慈善机构通过多种方式支持小学一级的科学教学。最值得注意的是，PSTT将获得年度初级科学老师奖，而赢得该奖项的那些老师被归入PSTT虚拟学院。这些在小学一级的杰出科学教师已经启动并运行了许多使用室外教室的项目，有些人使用了广泛的低成本传感器。 PSTT现在全职和兼职雇用其中一些研究员，而这个短期4个月项目的计划是将这些杰出的教师与布里斯托尔大学的空中质量研究人员一起探索数据库。然后，该小组将设计适用于关键阶段2（上下）的调查，使用数据库中的数据为7-11岁的儿童，准备学校可以与资源一起使用的数据集，但还可以指导教师如何使用数据库。此外，涉及的PSTT研究员将把这些资源传播给他们在项目过程中与之合作的其他研究员和学校，并在2020年4月停止时将继续在该项目上工作。因此，将有一个正在进行的小学项目的开始。数据库及其调查将有助于该小组了解污染的来源，确定往返学校的清洁和污染途径，谁知道，这些年轻的研究人员可能会发现这些数据的一些有趣的功能，这些功能被忽略了。赋予这个小组的能力，能够自行调查，这将提高愿望，允许该队列在余生中必须处理这些问题，以了解年轻时的问题，并帮助他们设计方法来减轻其暴露量并降低污染水平。 PSTT网站将免费获得开发的资源，并通过PSTT区域导师计划获得对教师的进一步培训，该计划支持全职研究员与该地区的学校合作。

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.3390/atmos12101289
• 发表时间: 2021-10-01
• 期刊: ATMOSPHERE
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Khan, M. Anwar H.;Bonifacio, Sophia;Shallcross, Dudley E.
• 通讯作者: Shallcross, Dudley E.

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• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00364
• 发表时间: 2023-11-14
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 3
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• 通讯作者: Shallcross, Dudley E.

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• DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2021.1924229
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Biological Education
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Trew A

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• DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00086h
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: Faraday discussions
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: M. Khan;Rayne Holland;A. Foulds;J. Matthews;Sanjeevani Panditharatne;Michael E. Jenkin;D. Lowe;P. Navasumrit;C. Percival;D. Shallcross

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• DOI: 10.3390/atmos11050534
• 发表时间: 2020-05-01
• 期刊: ATMOSPHERE
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Diaz, Florencia M. R.;Khan, M. Anwar H.;Shallcross, Dudley E.
• 通讯作者: Shallcross, Dudley E.