NASA
Nasa: The Basics of Ocean Chemistry: Carbon, Circulation, and Critters
An explanation of ocean chemistry, supported by illustrations, for example, of the global carbon cycle in the 1980s and the annual carbon dioxide flux. The concentration of nutrients in the ocean is discussed for its impact on marine...
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Carbon Lab
An interactive lab simulation demonstrates the effects of increased carbon in the atmosphere and how that increase contributes to climate change. A data table for student records is available for download.
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.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Carbon Dioxide
Explains what carbon dioxide is, where it is found, sources of it, and describes human activities that contribute to carbon depletion and increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (Updated: February 22, 2013)
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...
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Breathing Yeasties
See how combining yeast, sugar, and water can demonstrate the carbon cycle and show how microorganisms work in the food chain.
Other
Arm Program's Education Center: Global Warming
An all purpose site with something for everyone. Learn about global warming and climate change, ask a scientist, take a quiz, or get a lesson plan!
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Carbon Cycle
Learn about the carbon cycle.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
Other
Antarctic Geological Drilling: Environmental Literacy Framework Activities
An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each lesson has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Matter in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will learn about the cycles of nature (water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) that support the flow of nutrient matter through an...
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.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Biogeochemical Cycles
The ways in which an element or compound such as water moves between its various living and nonliving forms and locations in the biosphere is called a biogeochemical cycle. All of the atoms that are building blocks of living things are a...
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Biogeochemical Cycles
Biogeochemical cycles happen when individual elements are recycled over and over in different parts of the Earth. Two examples are the Nitrogen Cycle and Carbon Cycle. Read an explanation of biogeochemical cycles and view a diagram of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Carbon Cycle and Climate Study Guide
Review the relationship between the carbon cycle and climate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Recycling Matter Study Guide
Review some of the cycles that recycle matter through Earth's biospheres.
Other
Nearpod: Photosynthesis
In this lesson on exploring photosynthesis, young scholars will explore photosynthesis by examining the reactants and products of this process.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Angry Aliens: Ecology
Teach aliens about ecology as you play this game, and review your own understanding in the process. Topics covered include levels of organization, ecological relationships, nutrition and energy, cycles (water, carbon, and nitrogen), and...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Cycles in the Ecosystem
A worksheet and notes covering cycles in the ecosystem, including the carbon and the nitrogen cycles.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Carbon Cycle
Kids learn about the carbon cycle and how this nutrient travels through the ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Oxygen Cycle
Kids learn about the oxygen cycle and how this nutrient travels through the ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
Other
The Incalculable Importance of Plankton
Plankton is a passively swimming plant life in a body of water known as the ocean. The Plankton that live in our ocean have one of the most important roles in the our Carbon Ecosystem. The importance of Plankton in our Ecosystem is...
NASA
Nasa: Carbon: Where Does It All Go?
At this site from NASA you can understand how phytoplankton help the carbon dioxide levels between the oceans and the air stay in balance.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Biology Events
This resource describes some of the research being done by biologists and things they are discovering, the kinds of topics that might be found in science current events.