Unit Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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.
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.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
Interactive
Other

Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain

For Students 3rd - 5th
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Webs

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food webs that explains the difference between food webs and food chains, and the relationships that exist between organisms.
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
Science Struck

Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain

For Students 4th - 7th
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
Handout
PBS

Pbs: The Living Edens: The Food Chain

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.
Lesson Plan
Other

My Science Box: Food Webs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan, students will choose an organism of their choice and research its life cycle, food chain, diet, and habitat, then predict how habitat change might affect the organisms living within it.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various food chains.
Lesson Plan
Other

My Science Box: Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will use a card sorting activity to construct a food chain and identify the role of organisms within that chain. The cards represent different individuals in an ecosystem and will help students begin to understand the concepts...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Food Chains

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to identify and manipulate food chains.
Interactive
Other

Explore Learning: Food Chain Gizmo

For Students 5th - 9th
In this ecosystem consisting of hawks, snakes, rabbits and grass, the population of each species can be studied as part of a food chain. Disease can be introduced for any species, and the number of animals can be increased or decreased...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this flipchart students will be able to summarize and organize simple food chains.
Handout
PBS

Pbs Teachers:yellowstone: Yellowstone Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate the interdependence of wildlife in the Yellowstone ecosystem and draw an ecosystem showing the interdependence of life forms.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem

For Students 4th - 6th
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.
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...
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Web of Life Game

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Fun, interactive game that helps students identify interrelationships in an ecosystem. For six or more players.
Activity
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Kids Do Ecology: Learn About Ecology

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about ecology.

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