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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Bgc Cycles: Oxygen Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover the process by which oxygen cycles through the ecosystem.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt: The Carbon Cycle Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will explore through this introduction to the carbon cycle.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Carbon Cycle

For Students 6th - 8th
[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,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Carbon Cycle

For Students 2nd - 7th
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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biogeochemical Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle.
eBook
Other

Elmhurst College: Virtual Chembook: Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Cycle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Cycle Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Website
Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Carbon Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
The carbon cycle is featured because virtually all living organisms need carbon to survive.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Biology Quizzes: The Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Assess your understanding of the carbon cycle with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is provided.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How carbon circulates throughout the environment.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How carbon circulates throughout the environment.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Carbon Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab uses a robust model of the carbon cycle to give an intuitive sense for how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and crust.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biorecycling: Using Nature to Make Resources From Waste

For Teachers 5th - 8th
By studying key processes in the carbon cycle, such as photosynthesis, composting, and anaerobic digestion, students learn how nature and engineers biorecycle carbon.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Aerobic Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an indepth yet brief description of the oxygen dependent respiration with links to Kreb's cycle and Oxidative phosphorylation.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Illuminating Photosynthesis

For Students 4th - 8th
To understand the process of photosynthesis, follow the hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms as they travel between the air, the plant, and the soil.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Lasers, Let's Find 'Em!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research particular types of lasers and find examples of how they are used in technology today. Teams present their findings by means of PowerPoint presentations, videos or brochures. The class takes notes on the presentations...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Carbon Imbalance: Algae to the Rescue? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A 95-page learning module that integrates biology, chemistry, and engineering. It includes in-class labs, virtual labs, and engineering design activities. Working with algae, students learn about and investigate how photosynthesis,...
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Other

Water on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Water on the Web (WOW) is an advanced site allowing students to actively participate in data analysis from real research sites. Lesson plans on a range of topics are provided. There is also a tutorial for using Excel to graph WOW data.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Drop's Journey

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about water and the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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