Course: Carbon Cycle

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- Carbon Cycle
Carbon Chemistry
- Carbon Chemistry – Teacher Demonstration File
  
  Teacher demonstration/student activity testing substances for carbon content.
- Carbon Chemistry – Teacher Notes File
- Carbon Chains – Student Activity File
  
  In this activity students compare the properties of slime with clay.
- Carbon Chains – Teacher Notes File
Carbon Cycle
- Respiration - Teacher Demonstration File
  
  In this demonstration students learn that plants respire too.
- Respiration - Teacher Notes File
- Photosynthesis - Student Activity File
  
  Students collect oxygen, as a by product of photosynthesis, and test it.
- Photosynthesis - Teacher Notes File
- Fermentation - Teacher Demonstration File
  
  In this teacher demonstration students can observe gases being produced through the process of fermentation.
- Fermentation - Teacher Notes File
- Solution - Student Activity File
  
  Across two simple activities students examine the solubility of carbon dioxide in cold and warm water. They then relate this to our oceans.
- Solution - Teacher Notes File
- Learn more about the relationship between salinity and the solubility of carbon dioxide, and how that relates to carbon capture and storage here.
- Lithification - Student Activity File
  
  In this research activity students examine sediment and rocks as a carbon sink.
- Lithification - Teacher Notes File
- Carbon Cycle Poster - Student Activity File
  
  In this activity students take all they have learnt from this unit and use it to assemble a carbon cycle poster.
Radiocarbon
- Radiocarbon – Student Activity File
  
  In this activity students examine data and categorise it as primary, secondary or proxy.
- Radiocarbon – Teacher Notes File
- Age Graphing – Student Activity File
  
  Students examine Carbon14 data and produce a graph for radioactive decay.
- Age Graphing – Teacher Notes File
- Carbon and the Carbon Cycle – Student Review File
  
  Activities to assist students with revision on carbon and the carbon cycle.
- Carbon and the Carbon Cycle – Teacher Review File

Topic outline

General

Carbon Cycle

Carbon Chemistry

Carbon Cycle

Radiocarbon