How is a movie theater like a desert biome? Compare systems to ecosystems with a set of activities that focuses on accessing multiple intelligences and building upon knowledge. As learners discuss the ways elements of an ecosystem depend...

From tiny organisms to entire biomes, young scientists examine the interdependent relationships tying all living and non-living things together with this collection of ecology resources.

A critical look into the structure and function of ecosystems is here for young learners as a series of lessons and worksheet activities. Topics covered include land-based and marine ecosystems, connections to the water cycle, food...

Test scholars' knowledge of ecosystems with a 20-question pre-assessment. Assessment challenges learners to answer multiple choice questions, read diagrams, and complete charts.

Explore the Earth's different ecosystems through four lessons, an assessment, and extension activities. Lessons include informative text and step-by-step instructions to apply knowledge in interactive, and thought provoking ways; such as...

Twenty questions make up an assessment designed to test super scientists' knowledge of ecosystems. Scholars answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions about organisms, food chains, energy flow, and more.

Scholars take part in a grand conversation about the basic needs of living things. Working collaboratively, pupils brainstorm and identify similarities to come to the conclusion that the environment meets the needs of all living...

Lots of animals live in the forest, and some are easier to spot than others! Locate 12 animals and their preferred habitats within the forest with an engaging activity. After learners fill in the correct animal for each area, they...

From Brazil to Indonesia, young scientists investigate the geography and climate of the world's tropical rain forests with this collection of worksheets.

Most every teacher dreams of a ready-to-teach and print book study. Well, here it is! The Jungle Book novel resource includes 12 complete lessons studying poetry, author's craft, themes, characters, and more. Scholars role play,...

Discover how much your young scientists know about biotic and abiotic factors with a two-question formative assessment that requires them to observe, list, and describe. 

Fifth graders will research a biome (land or aquatic) and create a project (diorama, model or another idea of the student's choosing) which includes the geographic features of that biome as well as plants and animals found there and...

This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]

A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of biomes, and the six different types that are found on Earth.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore and recognize the way climate alters or creates biomes.

Learn how the biomes of the world are determined by their climate and ecosystem.

Learn about land biomes and their ecology.

A units that follow a community as they work through Grand River Revitalization Efforts. Investigate how these efforts impacts the social, economic, historic, and biology of the Grand River.

A unit for students to look at the economic opportunities associated with a river. Students will explore the Grand River Revitalization & Restoration Project. In this unit, they will also learn about two species impacted by the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to ecosystems and other ecological concepts.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore ecosystems and ecology on an introductory level uncovering fact about types of ecosystems and the competitive exclusion principle.

Use these resources to study the ecology of the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest and issues surrounding its preservation.

This is a quiz game on biomes. Questions are presented as its corresponding bee is swatted.

Understand the living and nonliving aspects of aquatic ecosystems.