Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Tertiary Consumers
Explains what is meant by a tertiary consumer in a food chain and provides examples.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]
In this lesson, 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.
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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem [Pdf]
"Changing the Ecosystem" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the disruption in the food chain due to habitat loss and pollution and the results of that disruption. It is followed by questions which require students to...
Other
North Carolina Dept. Of Environment & Natural Resources: Kids' Educational Pages: Fish
A great site for kids wanting to learn more about fish and have some fun at the same time. It provides information about fish including food chain, fun fish facts, crustaceans, and shellfish: oysters, scallops, and clams. It also...
US Geological Survey
Mercury in the Geochemical Cycle
Mercury in the geochemical cycle ultimately affects the food chain. Learn about this and its effect on the Everglades.
US Geological Survey
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation: Ecosystems in Delicate Balance
Learning activities to investigate how organisms interact in a functioning ecosystem. Students will explore the role organisms play in food chains and preserving biodiversity in ecosystems. Lake Pontchartrain Basin ecosystem is featured...
Everything ESL
Animal Habitats: The Polar Regions
Stimulate and challenge your ESL students with a unit on Polar regions. Students will use higher level thinking skills while learning about animals, habitats and food chains. You will find many downloadable pages.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Sharks, in Deep
Howard Youth, in his article for Zoogoer Magazine entitled "Sharks, In Deep," examines a range of topics related to sharks including Shark Basics, Troubled Waters, Reaching for Limits, Bites Out of the Food Chain, Discovering Sharks, and...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to learn to...
Read Works
Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London to learn to...
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Helpful Guide to Understand the Photic Zone
The photic zone is the upper layer of the ocean where sunlight can penetrate and support photosynthesis. This article explains the characteristics of this zone, the food chain that exists there, the adaptations of the plants and animals,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.19 Energy Flow
Learn how energy is transferred along a food chain.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animals: Food Chains, Characteristics, and Habitats Around the Worl
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great introduction to ways animals get food, characteristics of animals, habitats around the world. It contains pictures that will help students understand life cycles and where to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Owls
During this lesson, young scholars will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book about owls.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Ocean Planet
A series of lesson plans designed to be used with the Smithsonian Ocean Planet exhibit (available online). Lesson topics include marine ecosystems, pollution of ocean water, animal strandings, and literature.
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 transferred from one organism to another.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
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.
Other
My Science Box: Food Webs
In 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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Animals Eat
[Free Registration/Login Required] To show the dependence of animals on the plant world, these flipchart pages contain examples of food chains and food webs, as well as other information about animals and habitats.
Other
Segfl: Sebastian Swan: Pond Web
This interactive ebook "Pond Web" demonstrates a pond food chain. Students can click on the ? to find answers to questions posed in the text. Students are asked to retell the story using pictures provided at the end of the book.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Decomposers in the Ocean: Role and Examples
Describes five different types of decomposers that feed on decaying organic matter in the oceans and that are at the bottom of the ocean food chain.
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