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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Ecosystems in Action [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders explore animals and plants that inhabit ecosystems by using movement to deepen the retention of vocabulary. After reviewing the ecosystem players, students will play a call and response game by responding 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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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
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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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.19 Energy Flow

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how energy is transferred along a food chain.
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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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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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Article
Other

Newport: Introduction to Solar Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
Radiation from the sun sustains life on earth and determines climate. The energy flow within the sun results in a surface temperature of around 5800 K, so the spectrum of the radiation from the sun is similar to that of a 5800 K...
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: An Analogy: Biomass Pyramid vs. Energy Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what biomass and energy pyramids are and provides a table highlighting their differences.
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Article
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Energy and Ecosystems Use Some Lose Some

For Students 4th - 5th
Life on Earth is possible because energy flows one way through ecosystems, while matter cycles endlessly. Water and elements, such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur are examples of matter that cycles through ecosystems.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Energy Flow Through Organisms: Introduction to Photosynthesis/respiration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this life science classroom activity, learners will use cooperative learning and whole class discussions to be introduced to the concept of energy flow through organisms, and understand the basic processes of photosynthesis and...
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eBook
Other

Marietta College: Biology: Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to understand how energy and inorganic nutrients flow through a food chain in an ecosystem.
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Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls1 6: Photosynthesis Matter Cycling and Energy Flow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS1-6: photosynthesis - matter cycling and energy flow.
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Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 3: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow in Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-3: matter cycling and energy flow in ecosystems.
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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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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Industial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
At one time, humans, fueled by the animals and plants they ate and the wood they burned, or aided by their domesticated animals, provided most of the energy in use. All life operated within the fairly immediate flow of energy from the...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 2: Drawing Local Connections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores Earth Science Systems. In this lab, students study the four components of the Earth system by diagraming the flow of energy and matter through it.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Read 37 slides on energy flow and the nutrient cycle.
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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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