List the things that increase and decrease carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Go outside to an elevated point or to the school fence and identify and discuss the things that increase or decrease carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Return to the room and look at the effect to the cycle if less or more vegetation exists, ie. Synthesising With teacher direction and assistance students draw the carbon cycle and write an explanation of the flow of carbon dioxide within the cycle. Additional learning Students could investigate and list the users and producers of carbon dioxide at different locations around their local environment.
Students investigate how charcoal is made.