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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Producers

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will recognize and understand the role of producers in the food chain within different ecosystems.
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Unit Plan
Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...
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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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Handout
US Fish and Wildlife Service

Chlorinated Hydrocarbons (Organochlorines) Ddt

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief history of the use of DDT in the United States, its effect on wildlife, and the banning of the toxin in 1972 by the EPA.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Roles in an Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different roles in an ecosystem.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Roles in an Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different roles in an ecosystem.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Autotrophs and Heterotrophs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how autotrophs and heterotrophs obtain energy.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Mammal Structure and Function

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the function of various structures in mammals.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Hazardous Waste

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes various types of hazardous waste.
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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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eBook
Other

Segfl: Sebastian Swan: Pond Web

For Students 1st - 3rd
This interactive ebook "Pond Web" demonstrates a pond food chain. Students can click on the ? to find answers to questions posed in the text. Students are asked to retell the story using pictures provided at the end of the book.
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Activity
Defenders of Wildlife

Kids' Planet: The Web of Life

For Students 3rd - 7th
The Web of Life is a story told by a common garden spider at this site from Kids' Planet. Learn about the food web, and the roles and relationships of every living creature.
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eBook
Other

Sebastian Swan: Pond Web

For Students K - 1st
An interactive story showing the food web in a pond environment.
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Lesson Plan
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 7.4 Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis

For Students 7th
This unit on matter cycling and photosynthesis has students investigating the idea that all food comes from plants.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Food Chains and Food Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains and webs represent feeding relationships.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: A Bird's Eye View of the Desert Food Chain

For Students 4th - 6th
Describes how a food chain works in a desert and how the Mojave desert food chain works in particular.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Food Chain in the Tundra Region

For Students 3rd - 5th
Describes the characteristics of a tundra biome, how a tundra food chain compares to a tropical food chain, and what the different trophic levels look like.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 2

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 3

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Primary Consumers in the Food Chain

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains what a primary consumer's role in a food chain is and provides examples.
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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
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: Rainforest Food Web

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains the characteristics of tropical and temperate rainforests and what rainforest food webs look like.

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