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Handout
Museum of Science

Museum of Science: The Living Sea: Predators and Prey

For Students 6th - 8th
This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the 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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
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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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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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how to identify trophic levels in a food chain or food web.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Tertiary Consumers

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains what is meant by a tertiary consumer in a food chain and provides examples.
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
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...
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Activity
Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Breathing Yeasties

For Students 4th - 8th
See how combining yeast, sugar, and water can demonstrate the carbon cycle and show how microorganisms work in the food chain.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"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...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs: Lesson 2

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 2 of 4 in the series titled "Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs."
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: The Fascinating World of Jellies

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the mysterious jellyfish blooms that have occurred in the world's oceans. Because the resulting alteration to the marine food web has had devastating effects, researchers grow and study jellyfish at the Monterey aquarium....
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Predator Protector Game Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Describe the habitat, food web and ecosystem of shark species. Identify threats to sharks and explore how top predators help to maintain the balance of nature within ecosystems. This lesson plan also contains an interactive game.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Diversity of Birds

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] About 10,000 bird species belong to 29 different orders within the class Aves. The diversity among birds is striking. Birds can vary greatly in size and color. Some...
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc Schools: Living Things: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 7th
How are animals and plants linked? What is the difference between a producer and consumer? How is a predator different from prey? Take this food chain quiz to find out the answers to these questions and more. Links allow you to convert...

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