Carbon cycle with questions and answers

Carbon cycle diagram, carbon cycle steps and carbon cycle definition. GCSE Biology Lesson objectives: Explain the importance of carbon to living organisms, explain how the carbon cycle returns carbon from organisms to the atmosphere and explain the role of microorganisms in cycling carbon through ecosystems. The slides are fully animated and include answers to every mini plenary question and exam question. The breakdown of the slides is as follows:

Slide 1 - Title and 5-minute starter. The starter is a grid of four questions entitled ‘last week, last lesson, today’s learning and future learning’. Use this generic slide for all of your lessons by simply changing the questions and the answers each time.
Slide 2 - Lesson objectives (see above)
Slide 3 - Introduction to plants as producers, including photosynthesis and brief explanation of the food chain in relation to the compounds made by plants
Slide 4 – Addressing the question: Why is carbon important to living organisms?
Slide 5 - Mini plenary. Three questions of increasing difficulty to test learning so far. Answers animate onto the screen.
Slide 6 - Introduction to the carbon cycle definition
Slide 7 – Detailed, labelled pencil-drawing of the carbon cycle. Pupils will copy this into their book. Each arrow of the cycle is numbered and the numbers animate onto the screen in sequence in a prescribed order. This serves as a guide for pupils to know the sequence in which they should copy the diagram. It will also allow you to explain each stage of the cycle. Please note ‘carbon in animals’ appears twice as primary consumers eat plants and secondary consumers eat the primary consumers
Slide 8 - Mini plenary. Four questions of increasing difficulty to test learning so far. Answers animate onto the screen.
Slide 9 – Introduction to decomposers and what their role is in the carbon cycle
Slide 10 -Explanation of how microorganisms contribute positively to the carbon cycle
Slide 11 - Mini plenary. Two questions of increasing difficulty to test learning so far. Answers animate onto the screen.
Slide 12 – ALT (Applied Learning Time). 6-mark exam question. Mark scheme animates onto the screen
Slide 13 – Plenary. Cold-call style questions with pupil’s name attached to ensure learning has taken place

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