Come engage with the carbon cycle by building your own dynamic model, and considering the impacts to energy use and climate change! This activity helps participants visualize and model a commonly published diagram of global carbon pools and fluxes. Participants create a scaled 3-D visual of global carbon pools and net fluxes between pools with anthropogenic influences. The relative sizes of the pools can be modeled with stacks of poker chips, rolled columns of printer paper or similar. The fluxes can be represented by bingo chips, pennies or similar. Supplemental discussion questions guide participants through considering the forms of carbon in pools, key carbon transforming processes associated with fluxes, and the implications for climate change.

Join the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center's (GLBRC) education and outreach team on Thursday and Friday from 9am-2pm and Saturday and Sunday 10am-3pm for a engaging hands-on activity about the carbon cycle and its impacts.