Going Further

This page includes links to extend and enhance the lesson.

Educators interested in exploring climate change and carbon dioxide may want to pursue the lessons and links below.

NOAA has a good overview of the carbon cycle with real time atmospheric CO data as well as many background information articles on aspects of the carbon cycle.

• Carbon Cycle

Another good background article from NOAA on carbon cycle science.

• Basics of the Carbon Cycle and the Greenhouse Effect

NASA Earth Observatory also has a very thorough, and a little more complex, background reading on the carbon cycle that features a description of the slow and fast carbon cycle.

• The Carbon Cycle

This lesson includes good explanations and sample questions.

• Carbon Cycle Lesson Plan for High School—describes feedback loops and interactions between emissions.

The following is a large collection of activities and simulations for all age groups.

• UCAR collection

These two are more advanced models:

• Carbon Cycle and emissions
• Earth(Carbon)