Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organisms and Environments: Organisms Interactions
Learn about food webs, food chains, and organisms interactions in this interactive tutorial.
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.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up
This activity allows learners to make a simple model food chain and observe how toxic chemicals can become concentrated in the bodies of consumers at the top of the chain.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
A collection of three lessons where students learn about abiotic factors in marine ecosystems, about marine food chains and biodiversity, and about marine food webs and trophic levels. Includes handouts, website links, and a vocabulary...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems
Understand how organisms acquire energy and how that energy is passed from one organism to another through food webs and their constituent food chains.
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...
Other
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...
Other
My Science Box: Food Webs
In this lesson, students will choose an organism of their choice and research its life cycle, food chain, diet, and habitat, then predict how habitat change might affect the organisms living within it.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Marine Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the marine food chain.
Read Works
Read Works: The Food Chain
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining important vocabulary involving the food chain. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain
Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
For this unit students explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the health...
Other
Marietta College: Environmental Biology Sequence: Food Chains and Webs
View examples and learn how animals impact the food chain.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Food Chain
Have a look at a simple food chain and others that are more complex. Then construct a series of food chains by playing a drag-and-drop game.
Other
Marietta College: Ecosystems
Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Another Link in the Food Chain
Understand how the food chain works within ecosystems.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Breaking the Food Chain [Pdf]
"Breaking the Food Chain" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about the food chain which links plants and animals. If the food chain is disrupted, it can cause plants and animals to disappear. It is followed by...
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: Energy Pyramid and Food Chains
This illustrated guide to food chains and ecological pyramids will help clarify how energy flows through an ecosystem.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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