Budding scientists work collaboratively to reenact energy flow in a food chain. Scholars take on roles such as producer and consumer and perform tasks that symbolize energy flow in order to provide evidence of how much energy passes...

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.

Get your hands dirty with an interactive lesson that showcases the process of decomposing and returning nutrients back into the soil. After building a compost pile, pupils regularly observe the...

Thirteen short-answer questions follow a brief food web activity in a formative assessment designed to test knowledge of ecosystems and the energy that flows through them.

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

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.

What better way to learn about ecosystems than by getting outside and observing them first hand? Accompanying a field trip to a local park or outdoor space, this series of collaborative activities engages children in...

How can you tell if a microorganism is helpful or detrimental to an ecosystem? Learners inspect slides or pictures of microorganisms and record their observations to...

A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.

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.

This lesson focuses on food chains in ecosystems, including levels of consumers, decomposers, and a list of common words used with food chains and their definitions. It also provides a link to an assessment.

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.

This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...

Join Ellen on her trip to the Kaap De Goede Hoop in South Africa, and learn more about plants, animals, and energy.