Curated OER
The Environment: Vocabulary
In this environment vocabulary worksheet, students complete 12 multiple choice questions, then translate a set of "environment words."
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Carbon Oxygen Cycle
The fours stages of the carbon-oxygen cycle are described - photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, and decomposition.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Bgc Cycles: Oxygen Cycle
Discover the process by which oxygen cycles through the ecosystem.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Carbon Cycle
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.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Environmental Chemistry: Carbon Cycle
Article explaining the importance of carbon as the basis for life, carbon dioxide's role in photosynthesis and respiration, carbon in the ocean and lithosphere, the impact of human activities on the carbon cycle, carbon that seems to be...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Earth Science: The Carbon Cycle: What Goes Around Comes Around
Instructional module focusing on the carbon cycle. Discussion includes the biological and geological components of how carbon moves through the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Carbon Lab
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.
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: The Carbon Cycle Game
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...
NASA
Nasa: Earth Observatory: The Carbon Cycle
Learn about the element carbon and its importance on the Earth's atmosphere and sustainability of life on the planet. Additionally, understand the role the carbon cycle plays in global climate change over time.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Carbon Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will explore through this introduction to the carbon cycle.
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.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Carbon Imbalance: Algae to the Rescue? [Pdf]
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,...
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.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Carbon Cycle
A comprehensive introduction to the carbon cycle. The cycle of atoms between living and non-living things is known as a biogeochemical cycle. The most common of these are the carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Carbon Cycle
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Abiotic Cycles
Given scenarios, illustrations, or descriptions, the student will describe the flow of matter through carbon and nitrogen cycles and describe the consequences of disrupting these cycles.
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.
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Carbon Cycles
Middle schoolers 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...
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.
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Mystery of the Missing Carbon
This article discusses the mystery of the one to two billion metric tons of missing carbon from the global carbon budget. Scientists do not know where between fifteen and thirty percent of the carbon released each year disappears to, but...
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.
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