This lesson is designed to have students investigate the possible path that a hypothetical atom of carbon could have taken before it ended up in them. The students, in groups, will first brainstorm all the information they know about carbon. They will then be given twenty flash cards. The students will be asked to depict five placements of the carbon longitudinally through time, with approximate dates, until it ends up in them in present day. The students will gather information from class discussion and the cards themselves in order to portray the possible path. After the timeline is completed, the students will be asked to compose a narrative from the perspective of the hypothetical carbon atom that will describe each of the events in the timeline.