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Carbon cycle
 
Teaching Experimental Materials- 08-09 Version

We have developed some teaching experimental materials on elementary, middle, and high school level. See the following chart for the level of the teaching experimental materials you are interested in.

                                          Teaching materials

Elementary

Middle

High

 

Systems and Scale

Teacher's version Student's version

Teacher's version Student's version

Teacher's version Student's version

Organisms

Plants

Teacher's version Student's version

Teacher's version
Student's Version

Animals

Teacher's version Student's version

Teacher's version Student's version

Decomposers

 

Teacher's version Student's version

Teacher's version Student's version

Large Scale

Food Chains/ Ecosystems

 

 

Teacher's version
Student's Version

 

 

Teacher Version
Student Version

Large Scale Carbon Cycling

 

None

Human Energy Consumption

Teacher's version Stident's version Stident's reading

Teacher'sversion Student's version

Teacher's version Student's version

 

                                                PowerPoint for teaching

Powers of Ten
Process tools
       

 

 

 

 

                                          

News & Latest Papers

Dauer, J. M., Doherty, J. H., Freed, A. L., Anderson, C.W. Connections between student explanations and arguments from evidence about plant growth. Submitted to CBE: Life Sciences Education. (download Paper)

Parker, J., de los Santos, E., and Anderson, C.W. (2013). What learning progressions on carbon-transforming processes tell us about how students learn to use the laws of conservation of matter and energy. Educacion Quimica, 24(4), 399-406. (download Paper)

Dauer, J., Miller, H., & Anderson, C.W. (in press). Conservation of energy: An analytical tool for student accounts of carbon-transforming processes. In R. Chen, A. Eisenkraft, D. Fortus, J. Krajcik, K. Neumann & A. Scheff (Eds.), Teaching and Learning of Energy in K-12 Education. New York: Springer. (download Paper)

Dauer, J., Miller, H., Anderson, C.W. (2013) An inquiry learning progression for carbon-transforming processes. (download PPT, Paper)

Working Groups
Carbon
Biodiversity
Cycle
&Evolution

 

Water
Citizenship
Cycle

 

Research Partners

 

 

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