Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ecosystems
This module offers an in depth study of the fundamental components of ecosystems. Activities include mini-lessons with videos and student assignments.
Scholastic
Scholastic Explorers: Endangered Ecosystems
A great site with something for all grades. Do research on rainforests, follow field research on animals in Latin America, and show what you know through interactive assessments. Lots to see on this site which is a collaboration of...
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Aaas: Project 2061: Topic: Interdependence in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login Required] Create a science test that checks for student understanding in science, for common misconceptions, as well as for correct ideas. This is a list of key ideas related to Interdependence in Ecosystems. For...
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Just for Kids: Soil Biological Communities
This engaging site about soil is easy to understand and filled with quick facts. Cartoon graphics and menu tabs highlight topics which include the importance of soil, fast facts, soil critters, food webs, and others.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Food Webs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A close look at how animals and the environment interact with one another and specifically how the feeding relationships in a food web.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Energy Pyramids
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand how energy flows within ecosystems through the use of energy pyramids.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Producers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will recognize and understand the role of producers in the food chain within different ecosystems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Consumers and Decomposers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Based upon the way organisms acquire their energy students will understand how to group them as consumers, decomposers or producers.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Welcome to Dzanga Sangha
Connect the dots to investigate three different habitats either the forest, bai or river of the rain forest. By connecting the dots students make a food chain to see how organisms in each habitat depend on each other.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems
Understand how organisms acquire energy and how that energy is passed from one organism to another through food webs and their constituent food chains.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Constructing Sonoran Desert Food Chains and Food Webs
Is the food chain shown above accurate? Does the first link depict a producer, the second link a herbivore, and the third link an omnivore / carnivore? Students must correctly determine whether a species is a producer or consumer, and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organisms and Environments: Organisms Interactions
Learn about food webs, food chains, and organisms interactions in this interactive tutorial.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Dive Into Worlds Within the Sea
Think and Link to investigate three different ecosystem either the deep sea, coral reef or continental shelf. By connecting the dots students make a food chain to see how organisms in each habitat depend on each other.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Energy in Food
A video workshop examining how the Sun provides energy for all living things beginning with the process of photosynthesis. Presents current scientific thinking about energy transfer through the food chain as well as ways to deal with...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Food Webs Moving Matter in an Ecosystem(day 2)
Students will build a food web diagram and illustrate the movement of matter through a series of food chains. Resources include detailed plans, examples of student work, videos of the lesson plan in action, and sample food webs.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Food Chains Moving Matter in an Ecosystem (Day 1)
Students will create a food chain model and use it to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Resources include a detailed lesson plan, student handouts, pictures of a completed chain,...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Forces of Change: Weaving the Web
The students will become the food web in this fun interactive classroom activity. Detailed instructions, background information, guiding questions, and activity worksheets are provided.
Other
The Happy Scientist: What Is a Food Web?
A food web is a way of seeing how energy is transferred from organism to organism. All living things need energy. They use it to move, to grow, to reproduce. That energy has to come from someplace. Drawing a food web is a great way to...
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Kids Do Ecology: Learn About Ecology
This resource provides information about ecology.