Air Literacy mobilizes students from a Vocational Course

On April 12th, National Air Day was celebrated with the aim of highlighting the importance of air quality and raising awareness among the population of the need to protect the Air resource, which is essential to life. This year’s theme is “(Re)Thinking the city for good air”.

Lara Santos and Lara Ferreira are two students from the environmental management vocational course, type 6, from class CEF6C1 at Escola Secundária Jaime Moniz, who are working on the theme “AIR Quality” to present in their Final Assessment Test (PAF ) and chose this date to promote and publicize two activities from their Action Plan: Manifesto for the Air which includes the presentation of a poster – ManifestAR – built by the students where they present some of the attitudes and behaviors that contribute to improving air quality in the school and its surroundings (neighborhood, town or city) and the production of materials for dissemination and awareness (bookmarks), within the school community. The poster was posted at the school entrance, next to the screen, where a video about air quality was simultaneously projected. The students remained at the site during breaks in the morning shift, to raise awareness among passers-by about the importance of Air, promoting increased literacy on this subject. In this way, they consider that it is through direct contact that the message will reach the greatest number of people.

The Action Plan also included the Air Game, a digital game created by the students that aimed to assess the participants' level of knowledge about the main pollutants that affect air quality and our health; the sources of air pollution; the measures to be adopted to minimize exposure to polluted air; issues relating to air quality and climate change, among others. Participants accessed the game through a QrCode.