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The Habitable Planet Simulation
This activity is designed to accompany an interactive on the Annenberg Learner website. Students investigate the changes that take place in an ecosystem when they alter the organisms in a food web. As they work with the simulation, they...
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Marietta College: Ecosystems
Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: Energy Pyramid and Food Chains
This illustrated guide to food chains and ecological pyramids will help clarify how energy flows through an ecosystem.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: The Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals
Explore the different ecological roles of organisms in the ecosystem, and find out how the energy flows through them.
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Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Ecological Pyramids
A colorful tutorial about ecological pyramids. Read the information, and then check your understanding with some questions and answers about the topic.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant
Students begin this lesson by making observations and recording evidence of the variety of living things in local nature site. Students use reference materials to research predators and food of the animals they observed, then illustrate...
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
PBS
Pbs: Nature: The Fascinating World of Jellies
Learn about the mysterious jellyfish blooms that have occurred in the world's oceans. Because the resulting alteration to the marine food web has had devastating effects, researchers grow and study jellyfish at the Monterey aquarium....
Science Struck
Science Struck: Food Chain in the Tundra Region
Describes the characteristics of a tundra biome, how a tundra food chain compares to a tropical food chain, and what the different trophic levels look like.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Primary Consumers in the Food Chain
Explains what a primary consumer's role in a food chain is and provides examples.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Role of Amphibians
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Humans have used amphibians for a number of purposes for thousands of years, if not longer. Amphibians play significant roles in many food webs and are thus an...
Tramline
Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ecosystems
This module offers an in depth study of the fundamental components of ecosystems. Activities include mini-lessons with videos and student assignments.
Scholastic
Scholastic Explorers: Endangered Ecosystems
A great site with something for all grades. Do research on rainforests, follow field research on animals in Latin America, and show what you know through interactive assessments. Lots to see on this site which is a collaboration of...
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Termitology
This lesson will engage students in an inquiry-based study of the ecology of termites. Through hands-on investigations, students will explore the life cycle of termites, the termite's role in the food web, and the unique social structure...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Ecology Lab
Build your own ecosystem, and explore the effects of these interrelationships.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
Learners analyze food chains, webs, and pyramids to determine how energy flows and matter cycles through ecosystems.
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...
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The Dirty Dozen Persistent Organic Pollutants
Use this site to learn about the effects of persistent organic pollutants on the ecology of Antarctic coastal waters. Information is presented for both teacher and student researcher.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ecosystem Energy Flow
Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.
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