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The Habitable Planet Simulation

For Students 6th - 8th
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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Handout
Other

Marietta College: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.
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Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Energy Pyramid and Food Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated guide to food chains and ecological pyramids will help clarify how energy flows through an ecosystem.
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Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: The Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the different ecological roles of organisms in the ecosystem, and find out how the energy flows through them.
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Interactive
Other

Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain

For Students 3rd - 5th
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
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Handout
Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Ecological Pyramids

For Students 5th - 8th
A colorful tutorial about ecological pyramids. Read the information, and then check your understanding with some questions and answers about the topic.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant

For Teachers 4th - 7th
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...
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: The Fascinating World of Jellies

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Food Chain in the Tundra Region

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Primary Consumers in the Food Chain

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains what a primary consumer's role in a food chain is and provides examples.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Role of Amphibians

For Students 6th - 8th
[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...
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Activity
Tramline

Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
This module offers an in depth study of the fundamental components of ecosystems. Activities include mini-lessons with videos and student assignments.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Explorers: Endangered Ecosystems

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Lesson Plan
National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Termitology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Ecology Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Build your own ecosystem, and explore the effects of these interrelationships.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners analyze food chains, webs, and pyramids to determine how energy flows and matter cycles through ecosystems.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
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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Other

The Dirty Dozen Persistent Organic Pollutants

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ecosystem Energy Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
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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