The Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency
conducts a research in which state officials want to find the type(s)
of vehicle emissions testing in your community, the test procedures and
results, what can you do if your car just failed an emissions test, and
what the level of air pollution is in your community due to vehicle
emissions.
You (at Davea) are asked to collaborate with other High School
classes in DuPage County as well as with other individuals in your
community to identify the current status of vehicle emissions testing
in DuPage County, to analyze some results of emissions testing, and to
predict the levels of air pollution in your county due to vehicle
emissions.
• Day 1: (It can be extended throughout
the module): Introduction to this
module
•
Day
2a: Activities that can help
me learn more about air pollution and the impact of vehicle emissions
in our county
•
Day
2b: Automobile Emissions: An
Overview with some useful information about the sources of auto
emissions, and the combustion process.
•
Days
3 and 4: Exhaust Emission Test Report
(for Davea students) Here
are some guidelines about how to prepare a report for an exhaust
emission test. This report has to be prepared by the Davea students and
sent through e-mail to the students of the high-schools which
collaborate with Davea on this project.
•
Days
3 and 4: Analyze the Data The
high school students receive the data of various emission tests
performed by the Davea students, and they analyze the results. Then
they send back their analysis to Davea students; both groups get
together to complete their report to be handed to Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency.
•
Day 5a: How Can I Pass my Emissions
Test? his contains
USEFUL INFORMATION about vehicle emission testing in Illinois, and what
you can do to make sure you can pass your emission test!
•
Day
5b: Final Evaluation and Extension
Activities
