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Unit Plan
NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Estuary Food Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about the feeding relationships in an estuary ecosystem with this interactive energy pyramid activity. A second activity involves research and a video clip to elaborate the learning.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Food Chains and Food Webs: Food Webs

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Energy must constantly flow through an ecosystem for the system to remain stable. What exactly does this mean? Essentially, it means that organisms must eat other...
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Difference Between Food Chain and Food Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explains the characteristics of food chains and food web; the different levels of producers, consumers, and decomposers; and the differences between food chains and food webs. Includes charts and a Venn diagram comparing the two.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Webs

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food webs that explains the difference between food webs and food chains, and the relationships that exist between organisms.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.18 Food Chain

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain

For Students 4th - 7th
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Marine Food Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the marine food chain.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd
[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.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Food Webs: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to create a food web to show transfer of energy within a community. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Food Webs."
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 3 Web of Life

For Teachers 4th
Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
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Handout
Other

Food Chains and Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
A very informative site that discusses food chains and webs in detail. Not too complicated and fairly easy to understand, it also includes some pictures.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Food Chain and Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
Kids learn about the food chain and food web. How energy cycles and transfers through living organisms.
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Handout
MadSci Network

What Is a Food Chain?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Food Chain Animation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation discusses the food chain in a storybook format. The chain is described as a cycle and both herbivores and carnivores are discussed.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: The Living Edens: The Food Chain

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various food chains.
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Lesson Plan
Other

My Science Box: Food Webs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Other

My Science Box: Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Food Chains

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to identify and manipulate food chains.
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Interactive
Other

Explore Learning: Food Chain Gizmo

For Students 5th - 9th
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...

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