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Life or Death Food Chain Decision
Students discuss how energy is transferred to different trophic levels. In this biology lesson, students solve a theoretical problem and debate on a solution. They explain how energy is lost during cellular respiration.
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Food Chains
Young scholars create their own food chains on Kidspiration starting from the energy of the sun and what it creates. In this food chains lesson plan, students learn about how insects eat plants and so on.
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Carmaleetas
Students identify the relationship between predator and prey in the food chain. In this food chain lesson, students work in groups and play a predator and prey game. Students discover what happens when a predator does not find prey.
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Balance of Nature Pyramid
Students study the concept of food chains and create a physical forest food chain pyramid. In this balance of nature pyramid lesson, students identify the ingredients needed on each level of the pyramid then make connections...
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River Venture
In this food web learning exercise, students color 4 animals and put them in the correct spot on a food web. They answer 3 related short answer questions.
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Food for Thought
Students understand the importance of each member of a food chain through a game. In this food chains instructional activity, students receive background information and then play a game to simulate what happens in the food chain...
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Animal Relationships
Students study energy pyramids, food chains and food webs. In this animal relationships instructional activity students complete several activities and play a game.
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Insect Food Chain & Camouflage
Students use art work to demonstrate their understanding of the insect food chain and their ability to camouflage themselves. In this insect food chain and camouflage lesson, students determine what type of animals feed on insects. They...
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Coral Reef Community Drama: Scene Description
Students are organized into groups and are assigned puppets according to what sea creature their group represents. In this reef lesson, students identify sea creatures according to their place in the food chain then discuss how these...
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Critters in the Classroom
Students investigate with sea urchins. For this ocean habitat lesson, students observe sea urchins and other ocean grazers. Students work with lab equipment to examine the anatomy of these creatures.
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Forest Ecology
Students examine the different plants and animals in British Columbia. For this forest ecology lesson students explore how ecosystems work, classify animals and investigate food webs and chains.
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Obtaining Food -- The Impact of Over-fishing
Students play a fishing game. For this food supply lesson students regulate their fishing in a game about over-fishing. The students identify resources that could be extracted from that biome.
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Marine Debris and Me
Students study the environmental issues that pertain to the marine environment. In this research ocean landfills lesson students come up with alternative means of disposal.
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Cause And Effects Of Pollutants In Ecosystems
Eighth graders define what an ecosystem is, what its make up is and how pollution effects it. In this air pollution activity students identify the cause and effects of pollution on an ecosystem and trace a food chain.
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What's for Dinner?
Students investigate the dietary habits of living organisms by creating a model food chain. In this food web lesson, students define several food chain vocabulary words such as omnivore, carnivore and herbivore. Students...
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Food Chains in a Forest
Learners explore food chains in the forest. In this food chain lesson, young scholars listen to the story The Tree in the Ancient Forest by Carol Reed-Jones. They create a food chain to match the story and then create a food chain...
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Habitat survival
Sixth graders study different environments and how the food chain affects the survival of different animals. For this environments lesson plan, 6th graders share the visuals which describe the characteristics of the environment that they...
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Ecology: The Food Web
In this ecology learning exercise, students match the vocabulary to the definitions, then represent producers and consumers by drawing a Pyramid of Numbers.
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Water Pollution and Food Chains
Sixth graders study the effect of pollution in our food chains. In this plant biology activity, 6th graders first experiment with pollution by placing a carnation in colored water. Next they use a food chain triangle to see the...
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The Arctic Creature Mobile
Students create a mobile. In this food chain lesson, students create a mobile depicting the transfer of energy in the Arctic.
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Food Systems Feed the World
Students discover how getting food from farm-to-fork involves several steps and many hands. In this interactive food chain lesson, students respond to a series of questions about food distribution then work collaboratively to create a...
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Food Chains and Endangered Animals
Students investigate how all links in the food chain are related. In this animal habitat lesson, students hypothesize about what would happen in the food chain if an endangered species were to become extinct. This lesson also includes an...
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Unit 5 - Food
Students study the biodiversity existing in the Amazon rainforest. In this Amazon biodiversity lesson, students study diagrams, maps, and information about the biodiversity in the Amazon.
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Food Chains
Learners investigate the food chain. In this ecology lesson, students define producers and consumers. Learners use organism cards to demonstrate how the food chain works.