3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Factors driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers at plant, sere and continental scales. Photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, combustion, carbon sequestration in oceans and sediments, weathering.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How the biological carbon pump links the fast and slow carbon cycles via burial and compaction.
• How organic carbon becomes inorganic carbon.
• How carbon moves between the oceans and the atmosphere.
• How atmospheric and ocean temperatures are linked, and how ocean currents move carbon.

Suggested timing
1 hour

This lesson will help students to understand:

• The way their local place has been represented in media.
• Insider and outsider perspectives of their local place.
• How their local place may be represented in artistic representations such as paintings, poetry or song.