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An online reading and interactive game bring the path of a carbon molecule to life for your earth science explorers! As an assessment, learners can map out or write about their experience in the carbon cycle. Thoroughly written background information and links to related lessons and other resources are provided to help you easily develop a mini unit on the atmosphere and climate change.
Students explore the carbon cycle. In this carbon cycle lesson, students discuss the four main reservoirs where carbon is stored and then discover the process through which each reservoir absorbs and releases CO2. This lesson includes a hands on experiment, class discussion, an activity and extensions.
Students investigate the process of the carbon cycle. In this biology instructional activity, students take soil sample and calculate the amount of carbon found in the soil. They examine level of carbons in marine life and plants.
Students play a game. In this carbon cycle lesson, students read The Carbon Cycle, list places where carbon is found on Earth, brainstorm why carbon is important and play an online interactive game.
Students outline the steps involved in the Carbon cycle. In this earth science lesson, students classify items according to whether they contain carbon or not. They write a short story about a given scenario on their journal.
Learners study the carbon cycle and how the energy from the sun is used. In this carbon lesson students draw a diagram of the carbon cycle.
Students create a collage of the carbon cycle. In this earth science lesson, students explore the history and significance of permafrost. They analyze a graph of climate trends and explain how climate change and permafrost thaw are connected.
Students study the carbon cycle and how it cycles through our environment. In this carbon cycle instructional activity students play a game that allows them to discover that carbon can take many forms and that there is not a set path.
Fifth graders examine the carbon cycle, periodic table, and photosynthesis and respiration. They analyze the periodic table and how it is organized, then complete the "Elementary, Dear Watson" worksheet. Students then examine a carbon cycle sketch.
Students, in groups, create posters of the flow of a carbon atom as it travels through the carbon cycle. They make connections about how human activities affect the carbon cycle, as well.