University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Tertiary Consumers
Explains what is meant by a tertiary consumer in a food chain and provides examples.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Planaria Fishing
In this tutorial, Bill Nye explains how to catch planeria, small carnivorous worms that live in ponds. In addition, he explains their role in the environment.
Other
Soil Association: Food for Life Curriculum Pack [Pdf]
A curriculum focusing on food production and consumerism.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science: The Living Sea: Predators and Prey
This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the plants.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of a Character...
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Breathing Yeasties
See how combining yeast, sugar, and water can demonstrate the carbon cycle and show how microorganisms work in the food chain.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 5 Ps3 1: Food Energy From the Sun
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 5-PS3-1: food energy from the sun.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Flow of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When an herbivore eats a plant, the energy in the plant tissues is used by the herbivore. Every time energy is transferred from one organism to another, there is a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 3: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-3: matter cycling and energy flow in ecosystems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.19 Energy Flow
Learn how energy is transferred along a food chain.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Science of Ecology Study Guide
Review ecology, the study of how living organisms interact with each other and their surrounding environment.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Ecosystems in Action [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders explore animals and plants that inhabit ecosystems by using movement to deepen the retention of vocabulary. After reviewing the ecosystem players, students will play a call and response game by responding with...
MadSci Network
What Is a Food Chain?
Discussion of what makes up a food chain and its significance. Includes some historical perspectives on developing the concept, and on how a pesticide called DDT affected food chains during the 1960's.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Rock Residents: What Lives Under a Rock?
For this activity, students first listen to a story about animals that live under rocks, then go on an exploratory nature walk to see what animals they can find, living in their own small habitats. They write about their discoveries in a...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Food From the Sea
Did you know that 80% of the fish we eat comes from the ocean? Since oceans cover so much of the earth you would think that we would never be in danger of running out of its resources. Learn how overfishing is causing many problems with...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.
PBS
Pbs: The Living Edens: The Food Chain
PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.
Teacher Planet
Teacher Planet: Environment
A complete and comprehensive resource for teaching students about the environment, ecology, ecosystems, and more.Many lesson plans, units and activities can be found here.
Other
My Science Box: Food Webs
For this lesson, students will choose an organism of their choice and research its life cycle, food chain, diet, and habitat, then predict how habitat change might affect the organisms living within it.