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Regent's Park
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Investigating air pollution

Regent's Park pollution investigation

Summary of the investigation

In this investigation, pupils use simple equipment to take rapid measurements of particulate pollution along a belt transect to assess the extent to which vehicle emissions are dispersed with distance from the main road. The pupils sample the trees for particulates using sticky tape.

Resources for download

You can EITHER download all the teacher resources as a single pdf document and all the student resources as a single pdf document OR download individual resources as editable text documents

Whole investigation

Download Sense of Place PowerPoint presentation for students (2.4 Mb)

Individual files

(a) Teacher support materials

Regent's Park site background (Word 33 kb)
Risk assessment (Word 868 kb)

(b) Fieldwork

1. Recording sheet (Word 35 kb)

2. Collation sheet (Word 184 kb)

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