Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Earth Science: The Carbon Cycle: What Goes Around Comes Around
Instructional module focusing on the carbon cycle. Discussion includes the biological and geological components of how carbon moves through the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Carbon Cycle
Video talks about the carbon cycle and uses a computer as a metaphor to show how the cycle can be disrupted by climate change. [3:55] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Carbon Cycle
This lab uses a robust model of the carbon cycle to give students an intuitive sense for how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and crust. It allows them to experiment with how human input to the cycle might...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Following the Carbon Cycle
Illustrated interactive explores the 12 steps of the carbon cycle that show how carbon moves through the environment.
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: The Carbon Cycle Game
A lesson plan with downloadable handouts and teacher instruction sheets where students learn about the carbon cycle by simulating it in a game format. There are two rounds of the game where they first look at the pre-Industrial...
NASA
Nasa: Earth Observatory: The Carbon Cycle
Learn about the element carbon and its importance on the Earth's atmosphere and sustainability of life on the planet. Additionally, understand the role the carbon cycle plays in global climate change over time.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Carbon Cycle
A comprehensive introduction to the carbon cycle. The cycle of atoms between living and non-living things is known as a biogeochemical cycle. The most common of these are the carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: The Carbon Cycle
Useful introduction to the carbon cycle with a diagram and a discussion of the effects of carbon dioxide on the greenhouse effect and global warming.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Knights of the Round and Round Table: The Carbon Cycle
Resource to help learn about the carbon cycle.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Fossil Fuels and the Carbon Cycle
In the following lesson students learn how geologists locate fossil fuels by using a straw to extract "core samples" from a model that has different layers. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Environmental Chemistry: Carbon Cycle
Article explaining the importance of carbon as the basis for life, carbon dioxide's role in photosynthesis and respiration, carbon in the ocean and lithosphere, the impact of human activities on the carbon cycle, carbon that seems to be...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Biology Quizzes: The Carbon Cycle
Assess your understanding of the carbon cycle with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is provided.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Material Cycling in Ecosystems
This lesson focuses on the carbon cycle which shows how atoms of carbon can exist within different compounds at different times and be recycled between living organisms and the environment. It also provides a link to an assessment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Carbon Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will explore through this introduction to the carbon cycle.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate Study Guide
Review the relationship between the carbon cycle and climate.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Global Carbon Cycle
Interactive learning activity examines the global carbon cycle and describes the exchanges of carbon between the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and fossil fuels.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Global Climate Change: All About Carbon Dioxide
Understand the process that must occur to create carbon dioxide. What is the role of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? A video illustrating the carbon cycle is available.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Calvin Cycle
Learn about the three stages of the Calvin Cycle reactions: carbon fixation, reduction, and regeneration of the starting molecule. See how the products of the light reactions, ATP and NADPH, are used to fix carbon into sugars in this cycle.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: An Easy Explanation of the Carbon Cycle for Kids
The importance of the carbon cycle, how it works, the sources of carbon, and the steps in the carbon cycle are explained here.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: A Brief Guide to the Steps of the Carbon Cycle
Outlines the steps for the movement of carbon along the carbon cycle through photosynthesis, food chains, being dissolved into the ocean, the decomposition of organisms, fossil fuel formation, industrial use of fossil fuels, carbon...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.22 Carbon Cycle
Understand the role that the carbon cycle plays in the ecosystem.
Other
Elmhurst College: Virtual Chembook: Carbon Cycle
A step-by-step discussion of the stages in the carbon cycle. Each step includes a diagram further explaining the processes involved, as well as pictures depicting combustion, respiration, photosynthesis, and decomposition.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Carbon Cycles
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of energy cycles by learning about the carbon cycle. They will learn how carbon atoms travel through the geological (ancient) carbon cycle and the biological/physical carbon cycle. Students...
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is featured because virtually all living organisms need carbon to survive.
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