MadSci Network
What Is a Food Chain?
Discussion of what makes up a food chain and its significance. Includes some historical perspectives on developing the concept, and on how a pesticide called DDT affected food chains during the 1960's.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Food Chain Animation
This animation discusses the food chain in a storybook format. The chain is described as a cycle and both herbivores and carnivores are discussed.
PBS
Pbs: The Living Edens: The Food Chain
PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.
Other
Segfl: Sebastian Swan: Pond Web
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chain
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various food chains.
Other
My Science Box: Food Chains
Students will use a card sorting activity to construct a food chain and identify the role of organisms within that chain. The cards represent different individuals in an ecosystem and will help students begin to understand the concepts...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to identify and manipulate food chains.
Other
Explore Learning: Food Chain Gizmo
In this ecosystem consisting of hawks, snakes, rabbits and grass, the population of each species can be studied as part of a food chain. Disease can be introduced for any species, and the number of animals can be increased or decreased...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animals: Food Chains, Characteristics, and Habitats Around the Worl
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great introduction to ways animals get food, characteristics of animals, habitats around the world. It contains pictures that will help students understand life cycles and where to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this flipchart students will be able to summarize and organize simple food chains.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Welcome to Dzanga Sangha
Connect the dots to investigate three different habitats either the forest, bai or river of the rain forest. By connecting the dots students make a food chain to see how organisms in each habitat depend on each other.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Dive Into Worlds Within the Sea
Think and Link to investigate three different ecosystem either the deep sea, coral reef or continental shelf. By connecting the dots students make a food chain to see how organisms in each habitat depend on each other.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Producers
[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.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: The Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals
Explore the different ecological roles of organisms in the ecosystem, and find out how the energy flows through them.
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.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Creepy Critters
Young scholars learn about aquatic life and the importance of a balanced aquatic habitat by collecting micro- and macro-organisms. By the end of the lesson, they will be able to identify and develop a pond food web.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 3
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 4
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 2
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs: Lesson 3
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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