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Discover a Pond Food Web

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the biodiversity of animal life in a pond. They investigate the interdependence between pond organisms by completing a pond dipping activity and completing a checklist.
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Tracing the History Of Food

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore cultural variations in food preparation. They pick a country and research dishes of cultural significance. They prepare their food and present the dish to the class creatively.
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Owls are a Hoot!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a food web based on the animals found inside owl pellets. For this owls lesson plan, students research and describe the characteristics of owls as well.
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Globalization Comes to the Table

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, research the issues surrounding one of several controversies involving food and globalization. Then they debate their position and show a PowerPoint presentation at a mock summit meeting.
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Food Chains

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate how food chains work. In this food chains lesson, students construct a food web for a pear tree habitat. The interactive whiteboard is an optional tool in this lesson.
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Eastern Michigan University

Energy Flow in a Wetland Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How is energy transferred within an ecosystem? What would happen to a food web if one of the organisms was removed? Elementary or middle school ecologists examine these questions and more in a comprehensive 5E learning cycle lesson....
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Ecosystems

For Teachers 5th Standards
Explore the Earth's different ecosystems through four lessons, an assessment, and extension activities. Lessons include informative text and step-by-step instructions to apply knowledge in interactive, and thought provoking ways; such as...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lesson 5: Tracking Lion Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Researchers in Gorongosa National Park placed cameras there many years ago to understand what was happening with the lion communities that lived there. Little did they know, they opened a door to so much more! Inquisitive...
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NOAA

Deep-Sea Ecosystems – Life is Weird!

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
A pool of brine in the deep sea can be up to four times as salty as the surrounding sea water. The deep sea ecosystem relies on chemosynthesis and the organisms that live there are often strange to us. The lesson focuses on researching...
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Food Webs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are explained that they are spending the next few days researching an organism in preparation for a field trip. They are shown an overhead of the Field Guide. Students discuss what habitat means. They use their organism...
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Getting Food

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners complete activities to learn about the ocean food web. In this ocean life lesson, students discuss how the tides affect feeding, learn about filter feeders, grazers, predators, and scavengers. Learners then group the animals...
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Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete food chains for organisms in three environments. They use copies of the Habitat worksheet. Students review the food chain terms with the teacher. They research related food chains, and interlink these to form a food...
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Interdependence and Adaptation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a food web to illustrate how animals and plants are interdependent. In this interdependence lesson, 5th graders identify how consumers, producers, herbivores, carnivores and predators are related in a habitat....
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Circle of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students consider why we eat and where our food obtains its energy. They illustrate food chains that might be found on an open field, dissect owl pellets, identify the remains of animals in the pellets, watch videos and participate in...
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Vocabulary: Kansas Prairies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the ecosystem by reviewing scientific vocabulary terms. In this environmental awareness activity, students identify the differences between abiotic and biotic factors and their relationship to the Earth. Students define...
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Plankton

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the attributes of plankton. In this plankton lesson, students read This is the Sea That Feeds Us and discuss food chains. Students discover the differences between phytoplankton and zooplankton as they examine the...
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Carmaleetas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify the relationship between predator and prey in the food chain. In this food chain lesson plan, students work in groups and play a predator and prey game. Students discover what happens when a predator does not find prey. 
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Food Chains and Webs--- "What's for dinner?"

For Students 4th - 8th
Students study food chains and how the organisms are linked.  In this investigative learning exercise students answer food chain questions, and fill out several worksheets.
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Fast Food: You Can Choose!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research the nutritional value of fast food. They assess which fast foods are best and worst to eat. They organize their data into tables and graphs and explain their findings to other students.
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What's for Dinner?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the dietary habits of living organisms by creating a model food chain.  In this food web lesson, students define several food chain vocabulary words such as omnivore, carnivore and herbivore.  Students utilize...
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The Food Pyramid

For Teachers K - 5th
Students determine that humans need food to function properly. In this nutrition lesson plan, students discuss the food categories used in the food pyramid by charting the foods eaten in one day.
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NASA

Consumers Get Energy From Other Living Things

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
How do plants and animals get their food? Learn about where energy comes from, how animals store energy, and aerobic respiration, in a instructional activity that allows scholars to diagram energy flows. 
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Forest Foundation

The Web of Life

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers. To begin a study of the forest ecosystem, learners examine the connections among the members of ecological communities.
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Regions and Habitats

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the different habitats found in the seven regions of the United States. In this ecology lesson, 4th graders write an essay about how humans affect the ecosystem and vice versa. They discuss how changes on one...

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