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Marietta College: Biology: Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem
Read to understand how energy and inorganic nutrients flow through a food chain in an ecosystem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Trophic Levels
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how to identify trophic levels in a food chain or food web.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Tertiary Consumers
Explains what is meant by a tertiary consumer in a food chain and provides examples.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Ecosystems in Action [Pdf]
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of a Character...
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Breathing Yeasties
See how combining yeast, sugar, and water can demonstrate the carbon cycle and show how microorganisms work in the food chain.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem [Pdf]
"Changing the Ecosystem" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the disruption in the food chain due to habitat loss and pollution and the results of that disruption. It is followed by questions which require students to...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Food Web
Explains what a food web is, the complexity of one in a rainforest, and how energy flows through a food web.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Food Webs
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]
Science Struck
Science Struck: Rainforest Food Web
Explains the characteristics of tropical and temperate rainforests and what rainforest food webs look like.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Protect Our Planet Piece by Piece
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), food webs and their significance will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson provided by Julie Danley and Pam Walston.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
This lesson plan provides an eight-day flow of educational activities in which students use the Great Salt Lake ecosystem to explore food webs and how changes in living and nonliving factors affect different populations.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Web of Life Game
Fun, interactive game that helps students identify interrelationships in an ecosystem. For six or more players.
Defenders of Wildlife
Kids' Planet: The Web of Life
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.4 Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
This unit on matter cycling and photosynthesis has students investigating the idea that all food comes from plants.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
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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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:yellowstone: Yellowstone Food Web
Investigate the interdependence of wildlife in the Yellowstone ecosystem and draw an ecosystem showing the interdependence of life forms.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Animals Eat
[Free Registration/Login Required] To show the dependence of animals on the plant world, these flipchart pages contain examples of food chains and food webs, as well as other information about animals and habitats.
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