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Marietta College: Environmental Biology Sequence: Food Chains and Webs
View examples and learn how animals impact the food chain.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Roles in an Ecosystem
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different roles in an ecosystem.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Web of Life Game
Fun, interactive game that helps students identify interrelationships in an ecosystem. For six or more players.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.
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.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Food Chain and Web
Kids learn about the food chain and food web. How energy cycles and transfers through living organisms.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem [Pdf]
"Changing the Ecosystem" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the disruption in the food chain due to habitat loss and pollution and the results of that disruption. It is followed by questions which require students to...
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Another Link in the Food Chain
Understand how the food chain works within ecosystems.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 3: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-3: matter cycling and energy flow in ecosystems.
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.
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.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant
Learners 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.
Other
Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is an Ecosystem?
Learn about ecosystems, how they work, codependency, and food chains.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Moon Crater Ecosystems Lesson Plan
This is a teacher's guide to a lesson on ecosystems. The objective is for the students to set up their own ecosystem and define the roles of producers, consumers and scavengers.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Facts About the Marine Biome
Describes the characteristics of the marine biome, the plants and animals that live in each of the four ocean zones, coral reefs and estuaries, the climate of the marine biome, and the marine food web.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biodomes
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
Other
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...
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 transfered from one organism to another.
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 transfered from one organism to another.