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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 2nd grade unit on animal environments and habitats. Include web links for information on different land and water habitats, as well as a lesson on food chains.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will review the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs."
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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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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is an Ecosystem?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about ecosystems, how they work, codependency, and food chains.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Energy Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand how energy flows within ecosystems through the use of energy pyramids.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Based upon the way organisms acquire their energy students will understand how to group them as consumers, decomposers or producers.
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Other

Kidwings: Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection

For Students 4th - 8th
A complete lesson on owl pellets. Students can read information, watch a tutorial, and use their computer mouse to complete a dissection simulation right there on the screen.
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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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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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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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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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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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Most Important Question

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about some animals who have to learn to share their space around the pond. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Planaria Fishing

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this tutorial, Bill Nye explains how to catch planeria, small carnivorous worms that live in ponds. In addition, he explains their role in the environment.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Producers

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Energy is the ability to do work. In organisms, this can be physical work, like walking or jumping, or it can be the work used to carry out the chemical processes in...
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Activity
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Kids Do Ecology: Learn About Ecology

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about ecology.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: South Africa: How Do Organisms Get Their Energy?

For Students 5th - 7th
Join Ellen on her trip to the Kaap De Goede Hoop in South Africa, and learn more about plants, animals, and energy.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Animals: Interdependence of Life in a Habitat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students will learn how changes in nature can be beneficial or harmful to animals. At the end, students will be able to conclude information according to the evidence collected.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Dinamica De Los Ecosistemas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit shows how ecosystems change over time and how matter and energy, which are essential to its operation, are transformed and passed from one living thing to another forming, in some cases, authentic cycles. It contains 19...
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Other

Hub Pages: Biotic Factors of Ecosystem: Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
An ecosystem is composed of biotic factors of a community of living organisms interacting with one another which we can see in food chains/webs. These diverse organisms stay together because of the need of food. Population is referred to...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Moon Crater Ecosystems Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.

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