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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Food Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
A short lesson explaining the "web of interactions" that occur in a food web. Understand how the energy flows between autotrophs and consumers. [0:35]
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Food Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explains what a food web is, the complexity of one in a rainforest, and how energy flows through a food web.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Food Chains and Food Webs: Food Webs

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Energy must constantly flow through an ecosystem for the system to remain stable. What exactly does this mean? Essentially, it means that organisms must eat other...
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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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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson outlining activities for a science unit where students can learn about the relationships and the flow of energy within an ecosystem. These include predator and prey, hosts and parasites, and consumers, producers, and decomposers.
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Website
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Science and Technology Education

For Students 9th - 10th
A very comprehensive site for teachers and students. Topics include bugs, energy, bones, animals, photosynthesis, energy, and technology.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Leaky Clues to Dam Design: How Reservoir Height Affects Hydroel

For Students 6th - 8th
It's hard to believe that the same water that you use every day to quench your thirst, cook with, bathe in, swim in, and wash your clothes and dishes, is capable of another trick-it can make electricity. Electricity can be generated...
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Unit Plan
Other

Seeds Foundation: Hydroelectricity

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever tried to walk across a flowing stream? Have you ever watched a news report that showed cars and bridges being washed away by a flood? These experiences and events suggest the force of moving water, which provides a...
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Heat Pump

For Students 9th - 10th
Heat flow from a hot region to a cold region is described and explained. Applications of this phenomenon (specifically heat pumps and refrigerators) are discussed. Excellent graphics.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Flashlights and Batteries

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners work in teams to explore how a flashlight works. This activity examines the topics of batteries, electron flow, circuit systems, switches, and bulbs.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sources of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students are introduced to the different sources of energy produced on earth. Students will learn the names of different energy sources, the mechanisms of how each works along with...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Thermal Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews properties of thermal energy. Examples of Electrical energy, light waves, sound waves and conduction, convection and radiation are given.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Energy Test Review

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of energy sources and their uses.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The teacher will use this lesson plan flipchart to review the concept of energy.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Global Warming

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart that provides information about global warming, and the issues associated with green energy production and usage.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cellular Respiration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive, engaging overview of catabolic pathways that yield energy by oxidizing organic fuel. Students explore redox reactions, oxidation, reduction, and preview the stages of cellular...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.18 Food Chain

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.
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Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Marine Food Webs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students learn about marine food webs and pyramids, and how energy flows through a marine ecosystem. They then research a marine organism and its role in a marine food web. The class pools their information to create a...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try this five question comprehension check over ecosystems and the ecological relationships within them.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Ecology Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a series of multi-media learning activities, students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Electric Current

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive, students can explore how current, voltage, and resistance are related in a model showing the flow of electrons in an electric circuit. They will learn about Ohm's law and how other forms of energy can be made from...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Shades of Gray(water)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the concepts of graywater and water reuse within households. They calculate the amount of used water a family generates in one day and use a model of home plumbing to find out how much graywater is produced in...

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