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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Energy in Living Systems: Harnessing the Energy of the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
Background information on the history of photosynthesis. An explanation for how light is used to assist in making food for plants as the transfer of electrons allows energy to flow through the system.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: From Sunlight to Electric Current

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The lesson will first explore the concept of current in electrical circuits. Current will be defined as the flow of electrons. Photovoltaic (PV) cell properties will then be introduced. This will lead to the principle of "Conservation of...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Flow of Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When an herbivore eats a plant, the energy in the plant tissues is used by the herbivore. Every time energy is transferred from one organism to another, there is a...
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Article
Other

S Cool: Engery Flow and Nutrient Cycle

For Students 6th - 8th
This website describes trophic levels, transfer of energy between trophic levels, pyramids of ecology, and nutrient cycles within the environment.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Energy Pyramid and Its Importance

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains the roles of consumers, producers, and detrivores or decomposers and how energy flows through the different levels of the energy pyramid of a tropical rainforest.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the flow of energy through ecosystems with this study guide.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 6th - 8th
[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: 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 transfered from one organism to another.
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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: Earth Science: Flow of Matter in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will learn about the cycles of nature (water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) that support the flow of nutrient matter through an...
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Study Guide
The College Board

The College Board: Ap Biology 2007 Scoring Guidelines [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This scoring guide can be used as a study guide, provding examples and exemplary student responses. The topic covered is energy flow in ecosystems.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Life Cycles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, middle schoolers will extend their knowledge of matter and energy cycles in an organism to engineering life cycle assessment of a product. Students will learn about product life cycle assessment and the flow of energy...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem

For Students 4th - 6th
A module that explains what an ecosystem is and how energy and matter move through them. Students will look at the different roles of plants and animals and at ecological relationships in food chains and food webs.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Heat Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students study the difference between reactions that absorb versus release heat as well as how to measure this change in energy.
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Handout
Other

Nc Department of Energy and Natural Resources: What Is Stormwater Pollution

For Students 3rd - 8th
When it rains, some of the rainwater soaks into the ground, and part of it flows over the ground and directly into creeks, streams, or rivers. This water that runs off into the river is called runoff, or sometimes stormwater runoff....
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Interactive
Other

North Carolina Department of Energy and Natural Resources: Pollution Solutions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try to find at least eight things in the picture that could cause litter, waste, or other pollutants to end up in the storm drain and eventually flow into nearby lakes and streams. Includes a link to an interactive page of this activity....
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Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Atmosphere and Oceans: Factors That Control Earth's Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how temperature is affected by the composition of the atmosphere and how energy flows in and out of Earth's atmosphere.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Energy From the Sun

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Energy from the sun causes great things to happen on Earth from the water cycle to wind and waves. This flipchart includes video clips and student assessment.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Energy in the Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on how plants and animals get energy and different habitats.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Bicycle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the science of cycling is discussed. What makes the bicycle the most effective form of transportation today, what muscles are used while cycling, and different uses of energy are all...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Electron Current Flow

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teacher lesson plan which could be easily converted into an idea for a student project or presentation. This page describes an activity in which the water-electricity analogy is used to investigate the relationship between current,...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Ecosystems and You

For Students 9th - 10th
Slideshow that looks at energy flow in an ecosystem. Explains what an ecosystem is, how energy flows through it, the producers and consumers of energy, and food chains. Links to a video about plastic debris in the ocean.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organism Relationships: Food Chains, Webs, Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations, students will analyze the flow of matter and energy in food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.

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