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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Carbon Cycles
Students 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 will...
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.
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.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is featured because virtually all living organisms need carbon to survive.
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.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Carbon Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Carbon is one of the most common elements found in living organisms. Chains of carbon molecules form the backbones of many molecules, such as carbohydrates,...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is one of the most important cycles. It is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. This cycle is important because it...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Carbon Cycle
Learn about the carbon cycle.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Carbon Cycle
An engaging interactive enhancing studies of the carbon cycle. Check out a short video, sing karaoke about chlorophyll, take a quiz, and review vocabulary words.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.22 Carbon Cycle
Understand the role that the carbon cycle plays in the ecosystem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains the cycle of carbon through the atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Carbon Cycle Game
In this interactive, regionally-relevant carbon cycle game, students are challenged to understand the role of carbon in global climate change. They imagine that they are carbon molecules and travel via different processes through carbon...
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.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Carbon Cycle
This activity from NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory introduces students to the current scientific understanding of the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. The activity leads them through several interactive tasks investigating...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Carbon Cycle Web Game
Students will explore a web game that identifies sources of carbon and the changes it goes through as it travels the carbon cycle.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Carbon Cycle Diagram
Explains what the carbon cycle is and the basic steps in the 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.
NASA
Nasa Wavelength: Matter Cycles Matter: The Case of Carbon
A collection of teaching resources that look at the carbon cycle and its role in a changing climate.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect. Includes background reading and discussion questions. [2:26]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How carbon circulates throughout the environment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How carbon circulates throughout the environment.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Carbon Dioxide
Learn all about Carbon Dioxide, an important constituent of our planet's air playing an important role in Earth's carbon cycle and photosynthesis.
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