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Food Chains and Webs
In this food chains worksheet, students identify the producers and consumers in the given food chains and describe how contaminants can biologically accumulate. This worksheet has 4 short answer questions.
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Food Chains and Food Webs
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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Food Chains and Webs--- "What's for dinner?"
Students study food chains and how the organisms are linked. In this investigative learning exercise students answer food chain questions, and fill out several worksheets.
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Food Chains
Students create their own food chains on Kidspiration starting from the energy of the sun and what it creates. In this food chains lesson plan, students learn about how insects eat plants and so on.
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What is a Food Web?
In this food web worksheet, students will brainstorm organisms and classify them as either a consumer, producer, or decomposer. Students will write the organisms under the correct category in this graphic organizer worksheet.
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Food Webs and Chains
Fifth graders examine how simple food chains and food webs function. They examine an illustrated food chain/food web and identify the producers and consumers. Students then sequence pictures of animals into a food web, and create their...
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What's on My Plate?
Kids work together in groups to discuss and understand the differences between a typical diet and a healthy one. They use the My Plate recommendations to compare what they eat with what they should be eating according to the MyPlate...
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The Food Chain Game - A Lesson in Ecosystems
Students are divided into three groups, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores which receive a certain number of lives. Once in their ecosystem (outside or the gym), the carnivores chase and eat either the herbivores or omnivores, the...
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Figuring Out Food Labels
Students identify various sources of nutritional information and evaluate accuracy of messages. They comprehend and identify misrepresentations in current food labeling. Pupils evaluate specific consumer products for truth in labeling....
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Food Web
In this food web worksheet, students label the organisms shown as a producer or consumer and as a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. Students create their own food web with a list of given animals.
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Ecosystem Game
Students examine the ecosystem by playing a game. In this ecosystem lesson, students are put into groups of decomposers, consumers, and producers. Students create a list of animals that fit into each group and items that represent...
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The Quicker the Better? Food Processing
Sixth graders evaluate the nutrition of various foods. In this healthy eating instructional activity, 6th graders discuss the processing of many common foods and what this means. Students identify and research unfamiliar ingredients in...
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Food For Keeps
Students explore food. In this processed and fresh foods lesson, students discover how some foods are processed and how they differ from fresh food. The complete group activities and an individual reading assignment. This lesson includes...
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How is Your Food Grown
Students consider how their food is grown due to pesticide use. They reflect on the harm done to the various groups, then discuss the ethical questions from the perspectives of different stakeholders. IN addition, they compile relevant...
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The Flow of Energy Through a Food Chain
In this food chain worksheet, students write in the steps that show how energy flows through a food chain, from producers to consumers. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Food Safety-Consumers Need the Facts
Learners begin by completing a survey asking them to rank their concerns about commercially prepared foods. They develop a definition of relative risk, and complete the "Pro or Con" worksheet. Students work in groups to make a study of...
Virginia Department of Education
A Salt Marsh Ecosystem
What a web we weave. Pupils use yarn as the primary resource to create a web depicting the intricacies of a salt marsh ecosystem. They participate in a question and answer session, which leads to an in-depth facilitated discussion about...
K12 Reader
What’s Eating You?
Introduce your class to producers, consumers, and pollinators with a reading passage. Class members read the text and respond to five related questions.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Upton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harvey W. Wiley
Though Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle shocked the American public into a thorough examination of the meat-packing industry, the author was disappointed that his book's main argument—the exploitation of American immigrants—was not part...
Baylor College
Energy for Life (Energy from Food)
Energy comes in many forms, but how do living things get the energy they need to survive and thrive? In a simple, controlled experiment with yeast, water, and sugar, groups make observations about how yeast reacts with water alone, then...
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My Colorful Food Chain
Students explore biology by participating in a dietary habit activity. In this food chain lesson, students discuss their own diets and the animals we feed upon daily. Students create a poster demonstrating the animals that we feed upon...
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Science: Grade 4
Building a scientific vocabulary is important for all students and this presentation provides a list of words typical to 4th grade science curriculum. Tip: Adding images to this resource will make the vocabulary more accessible to ELLs...
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Producers, Consumers, and the Food Chain
Third graders discuss producers, consumers, and the food chain. In this producers and consumers lesson plan, 3rd graders talk about organisms, the food chain, and the difference between producers and consumers. They complete review...
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Arctic Food Web
Students research animals found in the arctic. They discuss what living things need in order to survive and where they get their food. Students discuss the difference between producers and consumers and create a food web for animals in...