Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):

• Forms
• Chemical Properties
• Preparation
  • Carbon Dioxide
• Hydrocarbons
  • Tests for Hydrocarbons
• Applications
  • Carbon Cycle
  • Soft Drinks
  • Fire Extinguishers

Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):

• Properties of Carbon (webpage reading containing everything a student needs to know about the Element Carbon; multiple embedded videos to illustrate properties)
•  Forms
  • Carbon Allotropes (students read about, visualize and can rotate 3-D models of graphite, diamond and buckyball allotropes of Carbon)
  • Carbon Chains (students read about, visualize and can rotate 3-D models of the Alkanes)
  • Ringed Carbon Compounds (In this interactive activity adapted from NOVA, students explore the prevalence of ringed-carbon structures in the natural world, as well as the structural variations that give rise to their unique chemical properties. The natural world is composed of a nearly endless variety of organic compounds. At the foundation of many of these compounds is the carbon ring, the structural component for two of nature’s most important families of compounds)
• Laboratory Preparation of Gases (students review this website to visualize the reactions and lab setups for the preparation of various gases, including Carbon Dioxide)
• Carbonates & Hydrogen Carbonates
  • Limestone and Its Uses (students find out more about this useful carbonate; limestone, quicklime and slaked lime)
  • Carbonates & Cooking (students read about the products of carbonates and hydrogen carbonates when heated)
• Applications
  • Carbon Cycle: Capturing Carbon (In this interactive activity from NOVA, students explore several potential means of storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) captured from industrial sources. Among the featured ideas are technologies that deliver compressed CO₂ to underground cavities, saline aquifers, and the deep seabed. The benefit of storing, or sequestering, captured CO₂ could be significant in the fight to slow or limit global warming. However, the list of drawbacks associated with carbon sequestration includes high cost, storage capacity limitations, a still-incomplete understanding of the relevant Earth systems, and uncertainty as to whether the CO₂ can be safely and permanently contained)
  • Soft Drinks: Why Does Soda Fizz? (brief article with images)
  • Carbon Dioxide Fire Extinguisher: How to make your own! (instructions, materials list and video demonstrating how CO2 puts out fires)

Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):

• Gridlock: Allotropes of Carbon
• Carbonates & Hydrogen Carbonates
  • Gridlock: Compounds Ending in -ate
  • Building Hydrocarbons Game!
• Applications
  • Carbon Cycle Game (For millions of years you were underground in fossil fuels. Now, you have been released into the atmosphere as humans burn fuels. Did you know that 5000 megatons of carbon are released into the atmosphere as fossil fuels are burned each year? In this game, you will travel the carbon cycle. Your objective is to get to all the places that carbon is stored along this map. Earn extra points by correctly answering the carbon challenge questions at the yellow stars.)
  • The Very, Very Simple Climate Model (This is the most recent version of The Very, Very Simple Climate Model. You can use it to explore how the rate of carbon dioxide emissions affects the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere and Earth’s climate)