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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Food Chains and Food Webs

For Students 4th - 8th
[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.
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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...
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web

For Students 6th - 8th
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Differentiated Tiering Food Web and Chains Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Two differentiated tasks about food chains and webs. In the more challenging task, young scholars construct a food web to show the relationship of the animals and plants in a given environment. In the lower level task, students create a...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Titanic Shipwreck: What Are Food Webs?

For Students 5th - 7th
Jorge is a cook in an underwater restaurant. He knows a lot about food webs. Dive in and learn about it with him.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy Transfer Through Food Chains

For Students 1st - 5th
This tutorial review over food chains and how energy is transferred through them.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Energy in Food

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A video workshop examining how the Sun provides energy for all living things beginning with the process of photosynthesis. Presents current scientific thinking about energy transfer through the food chain as well as ways to deal with...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Food Webs: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to create a food web to show transfer of energy within a community. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Food Webs."
Handout
Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Food Chains and Webs

For Students 4th - 8th
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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students begin this activity by making observations and recording evidence of the variety of living things in local nature site. Students use reference materials to research predators and food of the animals they observed, then...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.18 Food Chain

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
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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Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Flow of Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When an herbivore eats a plant, the energy in the plant tissues is used by the herbivore. Every time energy is transferred from one organism to another, there is a...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.