TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Food Chains and Food Webs
This lesson, 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 between producers...
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...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
In this unit students explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the health...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 3 Web of Life
Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biodomes
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Autotrophs and Heterotrophs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how autotrophs and heterotrophs obtain energy.
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.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
A collection of three lessons where young scholars learn about abiotic factors in marine ecosystems, about marine food chains and biodiversity, and about marine food webs and trophic levels. Includes handouts, website links, and a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem
A module that explains what an ecosystem is and how energy and matter move through them. Students will look at the different roles of plants and animals and at ecological relationships in food chains and food webs.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science: The Living Sea: Predators and Prey
This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the plants.
Other
Marietta College: Environmental Biology Sequence: Food Chains and Webs
View examples and learn how animals impact the food chain.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Web of Life Game
Fun, interactive game that helps students identify interrelationships in an ecosystem. For six or more players.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Mammal Structure and Function
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the function of various structures in mammals.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow
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...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up
This activity allows students to make a simple model food chain and observe how toxic chemicals can become concentrated in the bodies of consumers at the top of the chain.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Food Webs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A close look at how animals and the environment interact with one another and specifically how the feeding relationships in a food web.
PBS
Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Food Web
A comprehensive overview of food webs. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities, a...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ecology Disrupted: Chesapeake Bay Food Web
In this comprehensive lesson unit, students examine how overfishing has affected Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem. They will study food webs from the past and present and graph related data.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nhmu: Living Food Web
Fourth graders will be able to name some plants and animals that live in Utah's desert, forest or wetland ecosystems.
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organisms and Environments: Organisms Interactions
Learn about food webs, food chains, and organisms interactions in this interactive tutorial.