Programs For Schools

Clean Air Day

June 5, 2024

Clean Air Day is a special chance for kids to spend time outdoors, celebrate active transportation, and learn how air quality impacts our health and the health of the environment.

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Register to attend in-person, or to plan your own activity from home/school. Everyone who registers will receive information about taking the Clean Air Day pledge, prizes, and a toolkit with resources and activities.

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HANDBOOK

Clean Air Day Handbook

This handbook serves as a roadmap for organizing events, activities, and educational initiatives centred around clean air and sustainable living.

PLEDGE

Clean Air Day Pledge

Take a pledge as a family, classroom, or individual to do something that’s good for your body and the planet.

The Air Quality Health Index

The Air Quality Health Index is a tool used to measure Air Quality in any given area. Coordinated by Health Canada and Environment Canada, It is calculated based on the relative risks of three common air pollutants that are known to harm human health: Ozone (O3), Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5), and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2). The index acts as an important resource when planning an outdoor event, such as Clean Air Day. With stronger weather events occurring due to a changing climate, tools like this one are more important than ever.

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Move. Play. Learn.

By the end of the day students were all telling us that they were having ‘the best day’ and asking if we would be able to come back next year.

How to Plan Clean Air Day

Check your email for the Clean Air Day Event Kit, and pick the activities you want to do!

On June 5th, have fun doing activities and games. Move, play and learn!

Share what you do! Post on social media with #CleanAirDay2024MB

Earn a prize for your participation!

2024 Registration Closed

Outdoor Stations

Here’s who will be joining us at this year’s Clean Air Day event:

Health Canada Air Quality Station

Health Canada will be asking skill testing questions on air quality! Spin their Wheel and have a chance to win a prize!

Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society MB

Participate in a scavenger hunt! Review how we use our senses to connect to a place, followed by a short breathing/grounding activity, and then explore a section of the park to find nature textures and features!

Green Actions Centre

Come make seed bombs with us! Students will get to put together their very own seed bomb to take home at the end of the day to plant in the garden, yard or flower bed!

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre

Visit our wildlife education booth to discuss Manitoba Wildlife and Wildlife Rehabilitation with the help of two of our suprise wildlife ambassadors!

Motion Zone (Sport Manitoba)

Join this station to play games such as corn hole, safe axe throwing, ladder toss, giant connect 4, football kicking target and more!

Manitoba Council for International Cooperation

Visit the MCIC booth to answer some sustainable development goal trivia! Students can spin the wheel, then answer a trivia question about one of 17 sustainable development goals to win a prize!

Fireweed Co-op

Use a board that shows the growing season months and various vegetables and fruits to pin onto the board in the spot that corresponds with when that item is harvested. We’ll also have a diagram showing the components of healthy soil and why that’s important for clean air!

Bike Winnipeg

Join us in learning bike hand signals, racing in potato sack, and playing ladder toss!

Green Kids Inc.

A found-object puppetry station, facilitated by two eco-drama instructors. Turn found objects into active transportation machines and create characters to demonstrate how awesome moving through town powered by people–fuel can be.

Art City!

Build scrap birdhouses with Art City!

Manitoba Lung

Make your own pinwheel and enter a draw to win a free air outdoor monitor for your school. There will also be information on general lung health, radon, and youth smoking and vaping and prevention.