Program: Butler SWCD. Youth Groups: 4H Clubs, scouts, girl scouts, American Heritage girls etc. Topics include: soil conservation, water, wildlife, and fossils. Let us know what you are interested in and we will adapt to fit your needs and the age of the children. All programs involve a hands-on activity. Location: We can come to you, meet in a park, or use the meeting rooms in our building. Length: we will adapt the lenght of the program to fit you needs. When: We do provide programs during the evening and sometimes on weekends. Group Size: Minimim group size (including adults) is 12. Classroom Presentations All school programs are developed with the science standards in mind.
Water quality Water pollution Changes to the environment: Both human and animal Landforms Fossils Soil: formation, properties, erosion, etc. Please see the following pdf for a list of programs for your grade level and their correlations with the Ohio Science Standards (grades prek-8). Adult Audiences. ClassZone. Lsps07_int_nitrogen.jpg.resize.710x399.jpg (JPEG Image, 710 × 399 pixels) StudyJams. Earth's Four Spheres. Fig2.gif (GIF Image, 446 × 280 pixels) Labeling Water Cycle Worksheet. StudyJams. StudyJams. StudyJams. The Carbon Cycle [3D Animation] Nitrogen_activity.pdf. Nitrogen Cycle Video.
Carbon cycle. Atmosphere 750 billion tonnes of carbon Carbon in the atmosphere is mostly in the form of carbon dioxide with some methane and hydrofluorocarbons. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing. Acknowledgement: NASA. Vegetation 600 billion tonnes of carbon Plants store carbon as carbohydrates made from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Acknowledgement: Public domain. Soil and organic matter 1,600 billion tonnes of carbon Soil contains a lot of carbon in the form of dead plant material and in the many bacteria and other small organisms that live there. Coal, oil, gas 3,300 billion tonnes of carbon Carbon has been locked up in fossil fuels, built up from once-living things, for millions of years. Sediments and sedimentary rock 1,000,000,000 billion tonnes of carbon The carbon cycle overlaps the rock cycle.
Acknowledgement: Bordalier institute. Ocean surface 1,000 billion tonnes of carbon Exchange of carbon dioxide between the ocean and the atmosphere takes place at the surface. Deep ocean. Groundwater Contamination: Trouble in Fruitvale. CarbonCycle. Carbon Cycle Game. Lab 2: The Carbon Cycle. Introduction New York City. Source: WikiCommons. Imagine that you live in a large, complex city like New York with lots of different neighborhoods and with people, cars, and trains moving at different speeds between those neighborhoods.
Like New York city, carbon moves at different speeds into and out of the "neighborhoods" of the Earth System, changing as it moves. In Lab 2, you will investigate how carbon moves (cycles) through the "neighborhoods" of the Earth System - the atmosphere, the hydrosphere (Earth's oceans), the geosphere (Earth's soils and rock layers) and the biosphere (all the living organisms that exist on Earth). As you can see in the carbon cycle diagram below, carbon moves around quite a bit - just like New York taxi cabs! How does carbon move from one Earth System sphere (neighborhood) to another How does carbon change as it moves from one part of the carbon cycle to another? The Global Carbon Cycle. By the end of Lab 2, you will be able to: