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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
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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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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Producers make their own food through photosynthesis. But many organisms are not producers and cannot make their own food, but must get their energy from other...
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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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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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Unit Plan
Other

Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences: Cool Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
Students and teachers can explore the work of marine scientists and observe the ocean from their computers. Learn about Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory, discover why oceanography is important, and see what life is like in...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
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Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ecosystem Energy Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Decomposers in the Ocean: Role and Examples

For Students 4th - 6th
Describes five different types of decomposers that feed on decaying organic matter in the oceans and that are at the bottom of the ocean food chain.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Understanding the Process of Biological Magnification

For Students 9th - 10th
Biological magnification is the term used to described the increasing accumulation of substances in organisms as one looks at higher trophic levels in a food chain. When that substance is a toxin, such as a heavy metal or a pesticide,...
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Activity
Planet Pals

Planet Pals: Producers

For Students 2nd - 6th
This colorful site examines the food chain and delves into an explanation of what producers are and where they fit in an overall ecosystem.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Energy Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand how energy flows within ecosystems through the use of energy pyramids.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Based upon the way organisms acquire their energy students will understand how to group them as consumers, decomposers or producers.
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Unit Plan
Other

Kidwings: Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection

For Students 4th - 8th
A complete lesson on owl pellets. Students can read information, watch a tutorial, and use their computer mouse to complete a dissection simulation right there on the screen.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
This module offers an in depth study of the fundamental components of ecosystems. Activities include mini-lessons with videos and student assignments.
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Activity
Tramline

Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is an Ecosystem?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about ecosystems, how they work, codependency, and food chains.

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