Carbon Cycle Game
This is a lesson plan designed to introduce the complexity of the carbon cycle to students. Students participate in a game and after completing the game they should understand that carbon can take many forms throughout the carbon cycle, and that no set pathway exists in the cycle.
Study of the carbon cycle through this game encourages deeper understanding of the carbon cycle than just the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration. The game provides an engaging way for student to recognize the importance of carbon to living things, describe the difference between organic and inorganic carbon, identify different carbon pools, identify different forms carbon takes throughout the carbon cycle, describe paths in which carbon can move throughout the environment and describe how humans influence the carbon cycle.
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