A comprehensive K-12 curriculum empowering students to understand, measure, and improve indoor air quality through hands-on STEM learning.
Interdisciplinary exploration of air quality science, from chemistry to public health
Composition of air, gases, pollutants, and chemical reactions affecting air quality.
Particle sizes, behavior, settling rates, and how particles move through air.
How air quality affects respiratory health, asthma, allergies, and disease transmission.
Collecting, graphing, and interpreting real air quality sensor data.
Design and build real air purifiers using the engineering design process.
Airborne disease transmission, outbreak modeling, and pandemic preparedness.
Exponential decay, CADR calculations, and quantitative analysis.
Lessons from historical pandemics and the science behind public health policy.
Age-appropriate materials aligned to developmental stages and standards
Observable phenomena, basic cause-effect relationships, simple measurements
Coming SoonSystems thinking, quantitative measurement, data collection basics
Coming SoonMathematical modeling, engineering design, controlled experiments
AvailableResearch methods, advanced modeling, policy analysis
In ProgressStudents design, build, and test Corsi-Rosenthal box air purifiers—the same DIY technology used worldwide to improve indoor air quality.
CR Box Air Purifier
$60-100 vs. $300+ commercial
Comprehensive alignment to national curriculum standards
Full alignment to NGSS including Performance Expectations, Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science & Engineering Practices, and Crosscutting Concepts across Physical Science, Life Science, Earth Science, and Engineering.
Authentic math applications including ratios and proportions, statistics and probability, functions, geometry, and mathematical modeling—all in real-world air quality contexts.
Begin with our flagship Grade 6-8 Engineering unit and empower your students to build real solutions.
Browse Grade 6-8 Units