Students can take the new Empowering Students Through School-Based Air Quality Data in Pima County, Arizona curriculum launched by the University of Arizona and Pima County in August 2026.
Students in grades 9-12 will learn how to analyze real-time and historical data from air quality monitors that are stationed across Tucson’s school districts.
Some of the lessons within the new curriculum center around developing effective research questions, completing air quality reports, studying cases of environmental injustice in Arizona and using Excel to help visualize data…