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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rocky Shore Food Web Drama

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore food chains. For this ecosystem lesson, students discover how plants and animals rely on each other for survival. Students research the rocky shore ecosystem and create a skit representing the ecosystem.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Food Chains

For Students 4th - 8th
In this food chains worksheet, students write in 3 different foods they like to eat and draw its energy journey back to the start. This worksheet has 16 fill in the blank questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chain

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in a simulation of the food chain. In this animal diet lesson, the teacher introduces students to the food chain, then assigns each student a part of the food chain to represent. The sun begins sending energy along...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chains

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate food chains. They review cycles and discuss ecosystems. They select an environment and create a food chain in small groups. They write their food chain and label it for the class to evaluate. They create...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chains and Food Webs

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars discuss the characteristics of producers, consumers and decomposers. Using a flow chart, they construct a food chain to visually show how organisms with different energy sources depend upon one another. Students explore...
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PPT
Biology Junction

Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Every living thing requires a food source, thus the interconnections in ecosystems become complex. Scholars learn about these interconnections in a presentation on energy flow. It starts with the sun and moves through many different...
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Energy Flow in the Garden

For Teachers 4th
How can you tell what an owl has eaten? Study the food chain and flow of energy in an ecosystem by dissecting an owl pellet and noting the bones found inside. Additionally, the lesson includes a game about consumers and producers with a...
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Lesson Plan
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Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE)

Carbon Dioxide & Krill: Impacts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What effects do temperature and carbon dioxide levels have on the zooplankton of Antarctica? This concluding lesson plan in a short unit on climate change and the ocean helps environmental scientists answer these questions. After...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fast Food and Daily Nutrition Choices

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore food. In this nutrition lesson, students investigate multiple facets of healthy eating and how the fast food industry impacts our society. They will participate in class discussions, read from their text-book, and watch...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Web Follies

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders cut and paste animal pictures to create a food web and trace the path of energy. They write a paragraph explaining the importance of photosynthesis in all food webs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ecosystem Food Web Mural

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a food web mural about an ecosystem of the freshwater marsh. For this food web lesson plan, young scholars write about the organisms and how each one depends on another.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Wetlands - Food Web Relationships

For Students 6th - 10th
In this food web relationships worksheet, students click on the links to learn about the food web relationships in the wetlands and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 8 questions total.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Organisms and Their Environments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study a local ecosystem and research the organisms to create a food web. In this ecosystem lesson, students view a video and answer questions. They visit a local ecosystem and make a list of organisms to research. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Field Trip to the Watsonville Wetlands

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the differences between food webs and food chains.  In this wetland lesson students play a food web game and go on a scavenger hunt. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Energy Through the Ecosystem

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this ecosystem activity, learners use a diagram of an ocean-based food web to complete 5 short answer questions about the energy flow through this ecosystem.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Interdependence of Birds and the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders participate in the "Checks and Balances" game. This game lets them experience the interdependence of oragnisms specific to the Great Salt Lake. They recieved informaton about food chains, food webs, trophic levels various...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Texas Ecoregions Summary Sheet

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this ecoregions of Texas worksheet, students complete a summary of a particular ecoregion in Texas. They find the producers and consumers of the region, they draw a food chain, the draw a food web, and they complete an energy pyramid...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shark Attack Odds and the Importance of Sharks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine an ecosystem. In this food web lesson, students discover the importance of sharks and what threat sharks actually pose to humans. They participate in class discussions and work independently on a couple of different...
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Activity
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Ask a Biologist

It’s a Plankton Eat Plankton World

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
For as small as they are, plankton sure play an enormous role in maintaining marine ecosystems. Dive into an investigation of these tiny organisms with a hands-on life science activity in which children cut out pictures of sea animals...
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Interactive
Learning Games Lab

Controlling Water Activity in Food

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Food storage matters! Scholars learn how the amount of water in corn can affect its rate of spoilage. They create a control group, then test three corn samples stored in three different locations for water activity. As a result of the...
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Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

Habitat Web

For Teachers K - 6th
It's all connected. Classes create a web to connect living things in a local ecosystem. They create cards with both living and nonliving things found in their areas while considering the characteristics of each. After they have a good...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

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
Curated OER

Forest Food Web Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students gain knowledge of food webs and ecological interconnections in the forest, and place different life forms in their proper place in a food chain. Students appreciate the balance of nature and how humans are affected by extinct...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chains, Food Webs, Biomass Pyramids and Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this food chains worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by placing 16 terms into the puzzle that match the clues given. Students review food webs, biomass pyramids, and the water cycle.