CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Significance of Carbon
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This activity explores the significance and functions of carbon and explains why carbon is essential to life on Earth. Students will investigate and explain cellular...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Carbon
Click on the left navigation terms for some great information about the 6th element in the periodic table, "carbon." Content focuses on carbon's electrons, where you can find carbon in nature and in the home, and how carbon combines with...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Fate of Carbon
Students examine the importance of carbon and learn about two Earth systems, the solubility pump and the biological pump, which cycle carbon from the atmosphere into the oceans and back again.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Carbon: Periodic Table of Videos
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about carbon, one of the most important elements for life on Earth. We look at various forms of elemental carbon, from diamonds...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Carbon Chemistry: An Introduction
A nice introduction to why carbon is the key to organic chemistry. Explains the role of valence electrons in the bonding of carbon and gives lots of "stick figures" models of simple hydrocarbons.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is Carbon?
The element Carbon is the basis of all human life. Learn here about the discovery of Carbon and its function amongst all living things.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Significance of Carbon
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the significance of carbon to life on Earth.
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Carbon
A very nice summary of key data on carbon, along with information of historical value and uses and applications of carbon compounds. Very helpful.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Carbon Bonding
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The abundance of carbon and how it forms bonds.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Well Known Uses of Carbon
Discover the wide variety of ways we use carbon as well as its three allotropes that are found in the natural world - graphite, diamonds, and amorphous carbon.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Isotopes of Carbon
Describes the characteristics of carbon and what an isotope is. Presents a chart of carbon isotopes listing nuclide symbol, atomic weight, half-life, and nuclear spin, as well as a second chart listing radioactive carbon isotopes....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Carbon and Hydrocarbons
prA webpage dedicated to information about properties and bonding patterns of carbon atoms. Page explains how carbon is essential to life.
University of Kentucky
Chemcomics/carbon
A whole bunch of comic pages that mention the element carbon and in most cases add a little bit of information about the element's properties.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Visual Elements: Carbon
A nice summary of carbon stressing its overall importance and some historical relevance.
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: The Chemistry of Carbon and Silicon
Deepen your understanding of the elements, carbon and silicon. Find out how and why they are related on the Periodic Table of Elements.
Chemicool
Chemi Cool: Carbon
A nice organized table of the important physical and chemical properties of carbon.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements: Carbon
Kids learn about the element carbon and its chemistry including atomic weight, atom, uses, sources, name, and discovery on this site. Also, study the properties and characteristics of carbon.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Carbon Uses in Everyday Life
Learn about the properties and uses of the element carbon.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Carbon
Read fun facts and details about the element Carbon, while learning about its characteristics, properties, uses, discovery, and where it is found.