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Food Web Lab
Students explore the predator-prey interactions and how humans have an impact on the food web. In this food lab lesson students complete a food web activity and discuss what they learned.
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Pond Life
Environmental explorers create an experiment related to ponds and then present their finding to the class. This resource is extremely open-ended. It needs more concrete objectives and procedures for meeting them.
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The Web of Life
Students explore the interconnectedness of living things in an ecosystem. They use pictures and arrows to develop a food web, and participate in constructing a class food web with students representing various parts of the web.
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In the Wild
Third graders examine the concept of ecology and how animals are suited to their habitats. In this animal adaptation lesson, 3rd graders identify a variety of plants and animal species that live in a Beech forest.Students create a food...
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A Coastal Arctic Food Web
Students create a food web of the arctic ecosystem. In this biology lesson, students explain how global warming affects this ecosystem. They explain how losing a species affects the entire community.
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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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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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Animals and the Food Webs that Love Them
Young scholars study the animals that Lewis and Clark would have encountered. In this animals lesson students study the food web and how human populations have affected them.
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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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Who Eats Whom in the Open Ocean?
Students examine how organisms interact with one another in the ocean. In this science lesson, students discuss predators and prey in the ocean. Students discuss food webs and how organisms interact with each other.
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Vocabulary: Kansas Prairies
Learners explore the ecosystem by reviewing scientific vocabulary terms. In this environmental awareness lesson, students identify the differences between abiotic and biotic factors and their relationship to the Earth. Learners define...
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Blue Planet: Open Ocean
Students research facts about animal species. For this ocean lesson students view a video, prepare illustrated cards and create a food-web display.
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Bugs in the Woods
Second graders identify insects and plants in the forest ecosystem in a structured field trip with stations and activity booklets. In this bugs lesson, 2nd graders explore the ecosystem of the forest, complete the booklet and play...
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Chewin' in the Chesapeake
Students examine a web page on food webs and select a habitat to research. In this research instructional activity students identify the organisms found in the food web and present their findings to the class.
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Organisms and Their Environment
Students observe elements of a local ecosystem and gain an understanding of what elements make up an ecosystem. For this ecosystem lesson students create a class food web that shows the interactions among the elements of the...
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Aquatic Foodweb
Students explore what a food web is. In this science lesson plan, students examine how nutrients and other pollutants enter a lake and play a food web game whereby students pretend they are either zooplankton, planktivore,...
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Food Web Relationships
In this food web learning exercise, students create a food web matrix and answer short answer questions about the food chain according to the matrix. Students complete 7 short answer questions.
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Seas Of Life
Students brainstorm examples of predator and prey that are featured in a video they watch. In this investigative lesson students will research an animal from the video and explain if it is a predator or prey and how it helps...
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A Healthy Environment
Students market healthy environments. In this healthy environment lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to examine the food web. Students then research healthy and unhealthy environments and use their findings to...
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Life in the Kelp Forest
Young scholars research and create a marine food web to learn about plants and animals in a kelp forest. In this marine food web activity, students draw lines between kelp forest predators and prey and show the flow of energy in the food...
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Plankton
Young scholars explore the attributes of plankton. In this plankton lesson, students read This is the Sea That Feeds Us and discuss food chains. Young scholars discover the differences between phytoplankton and zooplankton as they...
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Populations: Food Web
In this populations learning exercise, students analyze the food web given and answer three questions. Then they draw a food web and predict populations changes.
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Energy Flow - How Much Biomass do Plants Produce?
Students explore the concept of biomass. For this plant lesson, students conduct a scientific investigation that requires them to observe plant growth and biomass.
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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.