Since its inception in 1997, the Fort Air Partnership has worked in collaboration with many other organizations to provide accurate, reliable and credible information to the community to address their concerns about air quality, which continues to be the number one environmental issue in the region. We saw an opportunity to significantly enhance public awareness and understanding by providing the resources required to integrate teaching and learning about air quality into the approved Alberta junior high school curriculum.
The purpose of this section of the Fort Air Partnership Web site is to complement the print and audio-visual materials in the Air - Our Invisible Connection teachers’ resource kits. This Web site should provide junior high school teachers, students and their parents across the province with the information and materials they need to teach and learn about air quality in Alberta.
The Fort Air Partnership gratefully acknowledges the funding received from:
- Dow Canada for the Teacher’s guide, poster and video, and
- Alberta Environment for this education portion of the Fort Air Partnership web site.
We also wish to thank all the individuals whose efforts, enthusiasm and dedication made the Air - Our Invisible Connection resources possible:
Steering Committee
- Melanie Larsen, Vice-Chairman, Fort Air Partnership (Steering Committee Chair)
- Michael Bisaga, Air Monitoring Report Coordinator, Regional Environmental Management, Alberta Environment
- Edna Dach, Director, Technology Services, Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14
- Bob Dulaba, Director of Instructional Services, Elk Island Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 41
- Shannon Gregg, Public Affairs Manager, Dow Chemical Canada Inc.
- Sharon Hawrelak, Communications Advisor, Clean Air Strategic Alliance
- Myra Moore, Executive Director, Fort Air Partnership,
- Gerry Schick, Director, Curriculum & Instruction Sturgeon School Division No. 24.
Teachers Working Group
- Carmen Cornelius, Sturgeon School Division No. 24
- Carol Gilbertson, Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14
- Phyllis Schouten, Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14
Video Participants
- Matthew Dance, Project Manager, Clean Air Strategic Alliance
- Robert Lacroix, Dow Canada’s Fort Saskatchewan Site Leader
- Myra Moore, Executive Director, Fort Air Partnership
- Jay Nagendran, Assistant Deputy Minister, Alberta Environment
- Keith Purves, Chair, Fort Air Partnership
- Dr. Gerry Predy, Medical Officer of Health, Capital Health
- Katarina Stoochnoff
- Terence Wharton
Project Contractors
- Elk Island Public Schools Video Productions (video)
- Evolvs Media Inc. (Web site design and production)
- Medium : Green Inc. Strategic Communications (project facilitation and writing)
- North Design Group (graphic design and production for the Teacher's Guide, poster and packaging of the video)
