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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Handout
Curated OER

National Park Service: Moon Crater Ecosystems Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a teacher's guide to a lesson on ecosystems. The objective is for the students to set up their own ecosystem and define the roles of producers, consumers and scavengers.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Consumer and Producer Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers 3rd
Read and study the sources about the roles that different people have in the Louisiana economy. As you read the three sources, think about what would happen if some people gave up those roles.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive activity where students study how two species of producers are affected by a consumer. By completing several virtual experiments and collecting data, students will be able to summarize what plants can do to defend...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations. 4.Increase...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Clipping Coupons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore this website to find out how and why consumers make choices on what products to buy. Learn how producers entice consumers into buying their products. This is a very informative lesson plan.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Business Buddies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help characters Lisa and Drew learn simple economic principles by choosing what goods they will need for their lemonade stand. Continue exploring economic concepts by determining the producers, services, and consumers associated with the...
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Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: Coral Reef Food Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the food web in a coral reef with these illustration. Identify the consumers, producers, and decomposers that are located within this ecosystem. Site includes illustration exploring the different food chains as well as questions...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
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Graphic
Other

Insightful Interaction: Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: u.s. Economy at a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
The seven major economic indicators for the U.S. economy are listed here in an easy to read chart. The seven indicators are unemployment rate, change in hourly employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer price...
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Handout
Channel 4 Learning

Channel 4 Learning: Science Essentials: Habitats

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find answers to your questions about habitats, producers, consumers, and food chains. Glossary, image bank, suggested activities, and quiz included.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Pde Sas: Relationships Among Organisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students compare various types of relationships among organisms (i.e., biotic interactions). Students will: explain the roles of producers and consumers, and predators and prey in an ecosystem. Explain the...
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Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: The Market Economy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson teaches the basics about the market economy, including the relationships between consumers and producers, supply and demand, and profit and incentive. Students learn six traits of a market economy, compare the market economy...
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Unit Plan
NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Biodiversity in an Estuary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to the amazing biodiversity of an estuarine environment, focusing on the habitats in the Rookery Bay National EstuarineResearch Reserve, Florida. They begin by exploring the estuary using Google Maps....
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Economic Review Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This activity reviews goods, services, producers, and consumers. The lesson consist of sorting, fill in the blank, writing, and racing car review quiz.
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Lesson Plan
University of Nebraska Omaha

An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Nhmu: Living Food Web

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will be able to name some plants and animals that live in Utah's desert, forest or wetland ecosystems.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Everyone Works

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps young scholars understand the economic concepts of goods and services. Students categorize economic activities as goods or services, and discuss the goods and services exchanged in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura...

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