This lesson will help students to understand:

• The demographic and cultural characteristics or the economic and social inequalities of their local place.
• How online mapping tools and GIS can be a powerful way of displaying geographical data.
• How we can draw some understanding of the character of a place through study of indicator data.

3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Changes in the carbon cycle over time, to include natural variation (including wildfires, 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 natural events, such as wildfires and volcanic eruptions, alter the carbon cycle.
• The relative impact of natural events and human activity on the carbon cycle.

Suggested timing
1 hour