Air Quality in the "City of Lights"

This week in our 'Water' core class we had our final action project of the quarter, so we had a mini-unit. We have been learning about line slope and greenhouse gases. During class, we did lots of work putting the line slope formula to use with "real number" with meaning. We took statistics on things like the world's concentration of CO2 by year. To put this together we were tasked with making an action project where we took a city of our choice and use what we have learned on line slope to make our own graphs of different statistics relating to air quality and climate.

Here is Google Slides presentation on my city, Paris, which I chose because mainly because it is such an interesting place with an amazing history that I would like to visit one day.

As of the last few years, the levels of pollution in Paris have decreased by a decent amount. I firmly believe that by following their lead we could achieve the same or close to the same results as them.

Although the unit was very short I had a great time with this action project. I chose Paris relatively randomly but I'm very glad that I did. I learned a lot about Paris that I would have never known until now. It was a great surprise to me that they were able to achieve the reduced levels of pollution that were shown by the graphs. If I were to change anything at all about my presentation it would be the neatness of the graphs. I admit they are not the best but they convey my point and are accurate. Altogether a really fun and interesting action project.

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