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506 resources with the keyterm ecosystem

What's Hidden Among the Tallest Trees on Earth? Video

What's Hidden Among the Tallest Trees on Earth?

5 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Hidden hundreds of feet above the ground in the redwoods of Northern California is a whole world that was just waiting to be discovered. This video tells the story of Stephen Sillett who, inspired by his grandmother, set out to explore...
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Reduce Our Carbon Footprint, Let’s Compost! Lesson Plan

Reduce Our Carbon Footprint, Let’s Compost!

4th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Roll up your sleeves and get a little dirty with this elementary and middle school compost lesson. All you need is a large plastic container, a couple old newspapers, some organic waste, and a few hundred worms and you're ready to start...
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Treatment Plants Lesson Plan

Treatment Plants

1st - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Young scientists explore nature's water treatment plants in this simple science demonstration. By placing a stalk of celery in a cup of water mixed with food coloring, children are able to observe how plants absorb nutrients and...
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Animal Adaptations Handouts & Reference
2 In 2 Collections

Animal Adaptations

3rd - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Young scientists explore the animal kingdom from the safety of the classroom with this short research project. After first choosing an animal, children use the Internet to discover where it lives, what it eats, and how it has adapted to...
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Environmental Interdependence (Environmental Awareness) Activities & Project

Environmental Interdependence (Environmental Awareness)

5th - 8th
Whether introducing a study of environment awareness or preparing your classes for a performance task related to environmental interdependence, you will find this resource useful. Key terms and concepts are introduced so that all...
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Ecosystems and Change Lesson Plan

Ecosystems and Change

5th - 7th
Pairs of ecologists select an animal and investigate an ecosystem from its point of view. This simple lesson involves Internet research and putting together a presentation of collected information. 
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Arctic Food Chain Lesson Plan

Arctic Food Chain

3rd - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Explore the food chains that support Arctic ecosystems. A class discussion on interdependence and the different roles plants and animals play in ecosystems provides students with the knowledge to complete a worksheet asking them to...
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How Can a Dam Affect a River? Activity A Activities & Project

How Can a Dam Affect a River? Activity A

4th - 6th
Written for Washington state students in life science, this lesson provides an opportunity to examine the residents of local freshwater habitats. You or the class collects a water sample, and learners try to examine what organisms live...
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Ecosystem Exploration Lesson Plan

Ecosystem Exploration

3rd - 5th
After hearing a 1901 excerpt from John Muir's nature notes, emerging ecologists embark on an ecosystems exploration. In the schoolyard, they take their own nature notes as they observe the weather, soil, plants, and animals. 
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Who Lives in the Pond? A Mini Book Printables & Template

Who Lives in the Pond? A Mini Book

Pre-K - 1st
First-time freshwater ecologists color and cut out eight pages to make a book about which plants and animals perpetuate in ponds. This is ideal for your unit on living things or on different habitats.
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Food Chain Activities & Project

Food Chain

3rd - 5th
Two to four players receive seven cards each, with plants, animals, or nitrates depicted. They place what they have onto their own empty game board with the objective to complete a food chain. The game is a fun way to reinforce learning...
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From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World Video

From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World

5 mins 6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
A eloquent narrative and unique animation expound on the megafauna and megaflora that once dominated the planet and helped keep ecosystems in balance. Is there anything that can be done to undo the damage we've done? The speaker proposes...
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Breaking the Food Chain Worksheet

Breaking the Food Chain

3rd - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Throughout history, the growth of big cities has resulted in the destruction of ecosystems. In the case of Chicago, IL, a grassland that was once home to bison, deer, wolves, and foxes quickly became a booming city of over three million...
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Plankton Lesson Plan

Plankton

4th - 12th
Plankton: so much more than just a SpongeBob character. Three different activities have kids looking at both phytoplankton and zooplankton in pictures, as well as collecting their own samples (depending on your access to a saltwater...
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Bug Lyphe! Lesson Plan

Bug Lyphe!

6th - 12th
Introduce ecology classes to biodiversity and interdependence in ecosystems with a PowerPoint presentation. Then, they get up-close and personal with the invertebrate world by collecting insects, classifying them, and graphing their...
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Recipe for an Ecosystem Worksheet

Recipe for an Ecosystem

1st - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Creating an ecosystem is as simple as baking a cake. Well, maybe not, but using a recipe analogy helps learners realize that ecosystems consist of different components that come together in unique ways. Offer this worksheet as an...
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The Pollinator Lesson Plan

The Pollinator

1st - 3rd
What do bees and children have in common? They both love their sweets. Decorate a flower pot or bucket to look like a brightly colored flower and fill it with wrapped candy and cheese puffs. Have learners reach into grab the candy,...
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Study Jams! Changes in Ecosystems Interactive

Study Jams! Changes in Ecosystems

3 mins 5th - 9th
CCSS: Adaptable
Our scholarly friends head to the lake to go fishing and are unpleasantly surprised by the algae filling the water. They talk about primary and secondary succession as different ways that ecosystems are changed. Show the short video,...
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“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss Lesson Plan

“THE LORAX” by Dr. Seuss

1st - 3rd
CCSS: Adaptable
Few children's books convey the message of conservation as well as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. Read the story aloud, emphasizing the interconnectedness of plants and animals in an ecosystem and discussing different ways people can help the...
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Bio Build-up Lesson Plan

Bio Build-up

K - 5th
Trace pollutants through the environment in the seventh lesson of this series on the science of food. Looking at a picture of the plants and animals in an aquatic ecosystem, learners use dot stickers to represent harmful chemicals as...
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Ecosystems Video

Ecosystems

14 mins 9th - 12th
With the world's largest collection of geysers, many visitors end up overlooking the wildlife natural to Yellowstone National Park. Join Mr. Andersen as he shows your class about the different species living in the park and illustrates...
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Tell Me Why - Environment and Ecosystems Video

Tell Me Why - Environment and Ecosystems

2 mins 3rd - 8th
All of the species in our world are part of what is called a trophic level. Basically, it determines an organism's position in the food chain. Introduce your learners to the basic levels and have them identify more organisms that could...
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Biotic and Abiotic Factors Video

Biotic and Abiotic Factors

10 mins 9th - 12th
Life is complex. Just a slight change in the population of one species will have a substantial change on the biotic and abiotic factors of that species' environment. In this video, Mr. Andersen explains the effects removing wolves from...
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A Plant's-Eye View Video

A Plant's-Eye View

18 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Why is it important to look at the world from other species' points of view? Author Michael Pollan claims it is a way to reanimate the earth, realize Darwinian insights, and to take the food we need from the earth while healing it in the...
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