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Marine Ecosystems

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars identify producers and consumers and construct a food chain from four marine ecosystems. They describe the delicate balance among organisms in each environment. In groups, students discuss the human activities that upset...
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Worksheet
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Investigating Food Chain

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this food chain worksheet, students look at an example of a food chain and draw 4 animals for each food chain. There are 4 different food chains.
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Lesson Plan
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Create a Food Chain

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners build food chain pyramid from teacher-created carton cubes, and discuss plants and animals and their places in the food chain.
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Worksheet
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Habitats and Food Chains

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this food chains worksheet, students write the food chains in the 3 examples in the order of producer, predator, and prey.
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Organizer
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Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this food chains graphic organizer worksheet, students read a word bank and record the 6 animal names where they belong in the organizer.
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It's About Time

Who Eats Whom?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Packed with visual aids and multiple learning opportunities, an engaging exercise challenges individuals as they explore the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. After discussing differences between food chains, food...
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Wildwood Trust

Habitats

For Teachers K - 2nd
The circle of life is all around us, from the black bears in the nearby mountains to the pile of dead leaves in the backyard. Encourage young scientists to take a critical look at the world around them with a set of lessons about natural...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

End of Unit Assessment: Presentation of Position

For Teachers 8th Standards
What is the difference between formal and informal language? Pupils rewrite their position speeches to adapt them for an audience of adults. Next, they present their speeches in small groups, attempting to answer the question, "Which...
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Lesson Plan
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Forest Food Chains and Webs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore forest ecological systems. In this ecology lesson plan, students classify forest plants and animals according to their ecological roles. Students play a related vocabulary guessing game.  Students choose a card on which...
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Food Chains & Food Webs

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine how energy is lost through different trophic levels.  In this trophism activity students construct a food web and view a video. 
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Lesson Plan
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Food Chain/Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore ecosystems. In this ecology lesson, students read an article explaining ecosystems. Students create a visual organizer with index cards using components of various ecosystems.
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Lesson Plan
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Food Chain

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss what makes plants grow and who eats the plants. They are asked where do we get all of our energy? Students are asked to draw and label a picture of the sun in the center of the yellow strip of paper. They are explained...
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Lesson Plan
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Food Chains: Simple or Complex?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the relationships within the food chain between plants and animals. They construct modules of food chains, keeping them simple and not complex. They focus on what the animals eat and not on what eats it.
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Foundation for Water & Energy Education

How Can a Dam Affect a River? Activity A

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Written for Washington state students in life science, this lesson provides an opportunity to examine the residents of local freshwater habitats. You or the class collects a water sample, and learners try to examine what organisms live...
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What Effect Does Climate Have on Wildlife?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the international scope of climate change. They identify variables that cause changes in the climate. Students examine how changes in climate affect the food chain.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Learning About the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learning about the food chain opens a Pandora's Box of opportunities to learn about endangered animals and the environment.
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Worksheet
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Food Chains, Food Webs, Biomass Pyramids and Cycle

For Students 6th - 7th
In this food chain worksheet, students review terms associated with food chains and food webs. Students also recall the water cycle.
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Lesson Plan
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The Web of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students demonstrate the interrelationships of animals and plants. In this ecology lesson, students discuss the things plants and animals need for survival and study the glacier food chain. Students simulate the web of life by using a...
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Study Jams! Food Webs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Rhinozilla is back to take your lesson plan on trophic levels a step higher! After showing the video on food chains (available through the See All Related Jams button), add to it by showing this one. It deals with omnivores and food...
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Lesson Plan
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Food Chains

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate how food chains work. In this food chains lesson, students construct a food web for a pear tree habitat. The interactive whiteboard is an optional tool in this lesson.
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Worksheet
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The Food Chain

For Students 4th - 5th
In this food chain instructional activity, students see 4 blank boxes over 2 blank lines. Each box is labeled with a new vocabulary word pertaining to the food chain. Students write a definition of each word and draw an example.
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Lesson Plan
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Shark Food

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a linking chain to demonstrate the food chain.  In this food chain lesson, students use the Internet to research sharks, including what they eat, and create a chain link with a picture of a shark.  They continue this...
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Lesson Plan
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Food Web Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explain the main concepts of food webs and food chains. They describe the role of animals, plants, and other organisms in cycling energy and matter through a food web by creating mobiles. Lesson contains adaptations for all levels.
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Lesson Plan
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Animals and Plants of BC's Rocky Shore: lesson 3

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners create a mural of the food chain of the animals and plants of BC's rocky shore. In this food chain lesson plan, students also play a food chain matching game.

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