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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy Transfer Through Food Chains

For Students 1st - 5th
This tutorial review over food chains and how energy is transferred through them.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Food Chains Moving Matter in an Ecosystem (Day 1)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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,...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Forces of Change: Weaving the Web

For Teachers 4th - 6th
The students will become the food web in this fun interactive classroom activity. Detailed instructions, background information, guiding questions, and activity worksheets are provided.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Food Chains and Food Webs

For Students 4th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Videos, texts, activities, and assessments about food chains and food webs in an ecosystem.
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Activity
Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Webs

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food webs that explains the difference between food webs and food chains, and the relationships that exist between organisms.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.
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Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 5 Ps3 1: Food Energy From the Sun

For Teachers 5th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 5-PS3-1: food energy from the sun.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Food Chain Animation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation discusses the food chain in a storybook format. The chain is described as a cycle and both herbivores and carnivores are discussed.