Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Food Chains, Food Webs and Food Pyramids
The following is a tutorial of food chains, food webs and food pyramids.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Food Chains and Food Webs
This instructional activity, supported by the provided power point lecture (LESSON 1 and 2 Ecology Lecture Supplement ), introduces students to the concepts of food chains and food webs. Through its use, students learn the difference...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Food Chains Moving Matter in an Ecosystem (Day 1)
Students will create a food chain model and use it to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Resources include a detailed lesson plan, student handouts, pictures of a completed chain,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organism Relationships: Food Chains, Webs, Pyramids
Given illustrations, students will analyze the flow of matter and energy in food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Energy Transfer Through Food Chains
This tutorial review over food chains and how energy is transferred through them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Food Chains and Food Webs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Videos, texts, activities, and assessments about food chains and food webs in an ecosystem.
Planet Pals
Planet Pals: The Food Chain
Omnivores, herbivores and carnivores are waiting for you. The food chain comes to life at this friendly site.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Animal Ecosystems, Adaptations and Food Chains
This unit contains interactive lessons on animal ecosystems, animal classification, adaptations, and food chains.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Ecosystems: Food Chain Pyramid
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive you will need to design a food chain that corresponds with the correct ecosystem. You will need a sign-in to access the media but it will be well worth your time!
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Constructing Sonoran Desert Food Chains and Food Webs
Is the food chain shown above accurate? Does the first link depict a producer, the second link a herbivore, and the third link an omnivore / carnivore? Students must correctly determine whether a species is a producer or consumer, and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Food Chains and Food Webs: Food Webs
[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...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Difference Between Food Chain and Food Web
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Marine Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the marine food chain.
Read Works
Read Works: The Food Chain
[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.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain
Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World
Our planet was once populated by megafauna, big top-of-the-food-chain predators that played their part in balancing our ecosystems. When those megafauna disappear, the result is a "trophic cascade," where every part of the ecosystem...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains represent feeding relationships.
Other
Marietta College: Environmental Biology Sequence: Food Chains and Webs
View examples and learn how animals impact the food chain.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Food Chain
Have a look at a simple food chain and others that are more complex. Then construct a series of food chains by playing a drag-and-drop game.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Breaking the Food Chain [Pdf]
"Breaking the Food Chain" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about the food chain which links plants and animals. If the food chain is disrupted, it can cause plants and animals to disappear. It is followed by...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Food Chains and Webs
Trace the energy transfer through food chains and food webs. Check your understanding by hovering your mouse over questions to reveal the answers.
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