Year 8 Chemistry: The Carbon Cycle

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This complete lesson for Key Stage 3 Year 8 Chemistry covers the topic of The Carbon Cycle. Students will be able to:

  • Describe the carbon cycle and identify stores of carbon.
  • Understand how carbon moves from one store to another.
  • Explain why the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere remained steady for a long time.

Year 8 Chemistry: The Carbon Cycle

This complete lesson for Key Stage 3 Year 8 Chemistry covers the topic of The Carbon Cycle.Ā Students will describe the carbon cycle and identify stores of carbon. The lesson explains how carbon moves from one store to another. Students will also explain why the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere remained steady for a long time.

The slides provide extension questions for further challenge. Teachers can select from a variety of tasks to meet their students’ needs.

This lesson includes:

  • Title slide with learning objectives
  • A starter activity
  • Group reading (literacy)
  • Keyword task (vocabulary: carbon cycle, carbon store, fossil fuel, greenhouse gas and climate change)
  • Handout sheet task
  • Task boxes
  • Discussion exercise
  • Comprehension questions
  • Answer slides included for self-assessment

Next lesson Climate ChangeĀ 

Title slide image for the KS3 Year 8 lesson Climate Change


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