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Forests,
Mining Carbon from the Air

Goal: 

The students will learn a forest's role in the carbon cycle.

The students will develop a forest management strategy to help mitigate global warming by maximizing carbon sequestering. 

 

Prerequisites: 
Cutting and pasting data to an spreadsheet and graphing the results.
Averaging columns of data in a spreadsheet.
Using spreadsheet formulas to reference cells and find the difference between them.



Materials: 
Computer with Excel or other spreadsheet

CO2FIX V 2.0 This is the professional forest model used in this lesson. The software including input files can be downloaded  free from: http://www.efi.fi/projects/casfor

If your administration doesn't permit you to download programs you can use the three Excel versions of the data found in the professional models. See Downloads.

 


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