This game is a fun and engaging way for students to practice utilizing their knowledge of air pollution.
Students will use visual and written clues about air pollution, air quality, and pollutants to complete a crossword puzzle.
Teaching Tips
Positives
Students will enjoy putting their puzzle-solving skills to use while playing this game.
The clues cover a wide range of concepts within the topic of air pollution.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should have a general understanding of air pollution and activities that cause pollution.
Access to the Internet and a device is required.
Differentiation
Cross-curricular connections can be made in health classes that are learning about how air pollution impacts health or in language arts classes focusing on subject-specific vocabulary acquisition.
This resource would work well as an exit ticket at the end of a lesson or unit on air pollution, where students could put their learning into action.
As an extension, have students create their own crossword puzzle on air pollution. Students could use the same answers and use rewritten clues, or start from scratch.
Scientist Notes
The crossword lets students to match in appropriate words to answer a set of questions on methane pollution, CO2 emissions, air quality and pollution. The resource is recommended for classroom use.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Language (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
