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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students participate in an online lesson to determine that different plants and animals are found in different habitats. They use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat, and see that nearly all food chains start with a green plant. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students to the book, Life in a Pond, then discuss the food chain and create a food chain mobile. On one strip of paper students draw and label a pond plant, on another a tadpole, on another a fish and on the last a person. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students complete a unit of lessons on ecology, habitats, and food chains. They conduct research, analyze data and record the information in a science journal, discuss key vocabulary, and design and create a shoebox habitat project. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students identify the cyclical nature of food chains and discuss common food chain relationships in a variety of ecosystems. They work in small groups to research a specific food chain and make a display of their findings using paper plates. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students explore food chains and food webs in a pond and identify common creatures found in ponds. They look for tadpoles, fish, mites and other creatures in a pond during a field trip for first hand research. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students trace and compare the life cycles of various pond creatures. They construct a mobile that shows a pond food chain. In groups, they construct a pond mural to show the difference between a pond in the winter and a pond in the spring. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students are engaged in a variety of experiences to help them understand simple food webs and food chains. Opportunities are also provided for them to internalize the role different organisms play in food chains and food webs and how energy flows in an ecosystem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students discuss ecosystems, eliciting their current knowledge of an ecosystem. Students receive an Ecosystems document and look at the picture. Students brainstorm connection between the cover picture and ecosystems. The indicated document is available free of charge, ordering information is included on the lesson. Students read and discuss the document then create a food chain and then a food web. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students investigate food chains. They review cycles and discuss ecosystems. They select an environment and create a food chain in small groups. They write their food chain and label it for the class to evaluate. They create food webs of the foods they have eaten. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students role-play various organisms from a food chain to illustrate how a food chain works. In relay style, they try to fill their cups (stomachs) and, in turn, fill a larger organism's larger cup (stomach). Full Review »
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