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VFT Creation Activity

How Carbon Moves

The Stanford VFT Team

    Grades 6-12 Environmental Science Life Science Physical Science
How Carbon Moves

Where and how does carbon move through Earth’s systems in different places around the world?

In this activity, students will create a VFT to:

  • Connect the major processes of the Carbon Cycle to the living and nonliving things in the world around them.
  • Contextualize how human activity impacts these processes, organisms, and structures in the location of their VFT.
  • Showcase their understanding of the NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas: Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems (LS2.B) and Human Impacts on Earth Systems (ESS3.C).

  • Designed for Grades 6-12

  • Takes approximately 3-5 hours

Prerequisites

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Materials

Instructional Materials

  • Student assignment
  • Lesson Plan
  • Instructional Slides
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