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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigation a Food Web: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Being field scientists, students will explore a wooded area in their community and journal about their observations. Students will collect information about producers, consumers, and decomposers in the ecosystem. They will then construct...
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Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producer and Consumer Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
By using notes and supporting videos, tutorial helps students to acquire an understanding of producer and consumer surplus and to be able to calculate it.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Experiment With Ecosystems

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn what happens to different populations of organisms as their ecosystem changes. Design your own experiment and make your own guesses with what the result will be with this virtual ecosystem. Also experiment with producer/consumer...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Does the Nation Consume?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will focus on what the nation consumes and how that is measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the United States, the goods and services produced for household consumption account for about two-thirds of total output.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will teach the difference between producers and consumers. It provides an interactive way for students to get involved and actually become producers and consumers.
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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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Other

Hub Pages: Biotic Factors of Ecosystem: Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
An ecosystem is composed of biotic factors of a community of living organisms interacting with one another which we can see in food chains/webs. These diverse organisms stay together because of the need of food. Population is referred to...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: We Are Consumers and Producers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan is geared toward beginning economics concepts. "In this lesson you are going to learn more about how you and others are consumers and producers."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Consumer and Producer Surplus and Allocative Efficiency

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you've learned about consumer and producer surplus in this four-question exercise.
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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
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 2: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers 2nd
In this instructional task, 2nd graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explain how a person can be both a producer and consumer.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Producing and Consuming

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Lesson that helps students understand the difference between producers and consumers. Students create booklets, making them producers, and then use the booklets to complete the instructional activity, making them consumers.
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Indexes

For Students 9th - 10th
This page presents general information on the Producer Price Index, detailed statistics, tables and official publications, and more.
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Website
Other

Association of Natural Bio Control Producers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is all about integrated pest management. Here you can learn about beneficial producers and consumers.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Consumerism

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Food Webs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct possible food webs for six different ecosystems as they learn about the roles of producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores and decomposers.
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Other

The Learning Partnership: Journey to El Yunque

For Students 6th - 8th
In this set of learning modules, students examine the impact of hurricane weather on the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico. They learn about hurricanes, producers, consumers, and the food chain, and how disruptions in organisms'...
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Producers and Consumers

For Students 9th - 10th
This concise site that provides an explanation of what producers are along with a short quiz to test your knowledge of producers and consumers.
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Activity
Edutopia

Edutopia: Goods and Services [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....
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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
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 3

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 3 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 4

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 4 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."

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