Air Quality Videos
For Kids
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| Why is Coco Red? | A narrated version of the children’s book, Why is Coco Red? Coco and his friends experience another air quality adventure. Coco, his little sister and friends solve a mystery as they learn about how wildfires can affect air quality and health. This book is for all children, especially those with asthma, and their caretakers. | |
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Why is Coco Orange? |
Coco has a problem. He’s a chameleon, but he can’t change colors, and his asthma is acting up. View how Coco and his friends at Lizard Lick Elementary solve this mystery as they learn about air quality and how to stay healthy when the air quality is bad. This video is for all children, especially those with asthma, and their caretakers. Ages 4-8. |
For Your Health
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| EPA Flag Program in Navajo Language | This video, from the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, describes the Air Quality Flag Program and how organizations raise a flag every day that corresponds to how clean or polluted the air is. The color of the flag matches EPA's Air Quality Index (AQI): green, yellow, orange, red, purple and maroon. This information allows people to adjust physical activities to help reduce exposure to air pollution while still staying active. For more information, visit https://www.airnow.gov/air-quality-flag-program/ Navajo and English |
Watch on the Northern Arizona University website  |
| How to Make a Video - EPA Flag Program in Navajo | This video, from the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, describes the Air Quality Flag Program and how to make a video. For more information, visit https://www.airnow.gov/air-quality-flag-program/ Navajo and English |
Watch on the Northern Arizona University website |
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Smart, Protect Your Heart from Air Pollution |
It’s American Heart Month. Did you know you can use the AQI to help protect your heart? Check out EPA’s new PSA on air pollution and heart health | |
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Breathing Freely: Controlling Asthma Triggers |
Featuring conversations with medical professionals and parents of children with asthma, this video presents the role of the environment in triggering and worsening asthma attacks and offers ways to manage asthma to help children lead normal, healthy lives |
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Controlando los Factores del Asme |
En el Día Mundial del Asma, 2004, EPA ha publicado un nuevo video educativo. La EPA se esfuerza en fomentar los conocimientos sobre el rol de los factores ambientales del asma para ayudar a los que sufren de asma. |
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Forecast Earth: Air Aware |
The Weather Channel's program "Forecast Earth", aired an EPA-sponsored segment in November 2005. Air Aware, highlights how air quality can affect people and their health, focuses on state and local programs and outlines how to take action. | Watch on Vimeo |
EPA Pacific Southwest Wildfire
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| Protecting Children from Wildfire Smoke in the Pacific Southwest |
Dr. Stephanie Holm, Co-Director of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, shares information on what you can do to reduce wildfire smoke exposure for kids. The Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit is an EPA partner. |
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| Be Smoke Ready: Know Where to Go for Air Quality Info |
Being Smoke Ready means knowing where to get air quality information. This video provides a demonstration of US EPA’s air quality tools for tracking smoke levels during wildland fires. |
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| Be Smoke Ready: Know the Colors of the Air Quality Index (AQI) |
Being Smoke Ready means knowing the colors of the Air Quality Index, or AQI. Smoke from wildland fires contains tiny particles called PM2.5 that can be bad for you. The AQI can tell you how much PM2.5 is in the air, and what to do to protect your health. This video explains the AQI for PM2.5. |
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| Protect Family Mental Health During Wildfires |
Dr. Petra Steinbuchel, Director of the University of California-San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospitals Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Portal, shares information on what you can do to protect your family’s mental health during wildfires and other stressful events |
Download Executable Files
| Title | Description | File |
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| How Ozone is Formed - Executable | Ground level ozone, a harmful air pollutant, is formed when pollutants emitted by cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries, chemical plants, and other sources react chemically in the presence of sunlight. | Executable 1.04MB June 2006 |
| How Ozone is Formed (for Kids) - Executable | Learn how ozone is formed | Executable 1.40MB June 2006 |
| Ozone: Good Up High Bad Nearby - Executable | Ozone is a gas that occurs both in the Earth's upper atmosphere and at ground level. Ozone can be "good" or "bad" for your health and the environment, depending on its location in the atmosphere. | Executable 1.40MB March 2007 |
| Particle Pollution - Executable | Airborne particles, the main ingredient of haze, smoke, and airborne dust, present serious air quality problems in many areas of the United States. This particle pollution can occur year-round and it can cause a number of serious health problems, even at concentrations found in many major cities. | Executable 1.27MB March 2007 |