3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Changes in the carbon cycle over time, to include natural variation (including wildfires and volcanic activity) and human impact (including hydrocarbon fuel extraction and burning, farming practices, deforestation and land use changes).
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How human activities have affected major stores of carbon.
• The reasons behind human activities that move carbon between stores.
• Where the most significant changes are occurring.

Suggested timing
2 hours

• near places and far places
• experienced places and media places.

3.2.2.2.2 Meaning and representation
The importance of the meanings and representations attached to places by people with a particular focus on people's lived experience of place in the past and at present.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• What place signifiers are and how we attach meaning to places.
• What the terms near places, far places, experienced places and media places mean.
• How media places can contrast from the lived reality of a place.

Suggested timing
1 hour