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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Global Change: The Flow of Energy: Higher Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson addresses the following questions: What is the efficiency with which energy is converted from trophic level to trophic level? What are the differences between assimilation efficiency, net production efficiency, and ecological...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Conversions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students evaluate various everyday energy conversion devices and draw block flow diagrams to show the forms and states of energy into and out of the device. They also identify the forms of energy that are useful and the desired output of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners analyze food chains, webs, and pyramids to determine how energy flows and matter cycles through ecosystems.
eBook
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Nonrenewable Energy Sources

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about nonrenewable energy sources. There is specific information about each of these energy sources, and lots of maps, charts, tables, and graphs to further the understanding.
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FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Energy, Heat Flow, and Life

For Students 5th - 8th
Here you can learn all about heat flow, one of the major driving forces of nature, and how it works. It is the force behind weather, photosynthesis, animal behavior, and much more.
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FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: The Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the different ecological roles of organisms in the ecosystem, and find out how the energy flows through them.
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Other

College of Du Page: Energy in an Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Ecosystems contain two kinds of commodities: matter (nutrients) and energy. Nutrients cycle through the ecosystem, available for repeated use by organisms. These cycles of use and reuse are called biogeochemical cycles. Energy instead is...
Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Energy Changes Make Things Happen

For Students 9th - 10th
Nothing can happen without energy. Here you can learn about the many different ways that energy makes things happen.
Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Go With the Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye shows how much energy your heart has to expend to pump blood, and demonstrates that it's easier to pump blood downward.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
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Other

Newport: Introduction to Solar Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
Radiation from the sun sustains life on earth and determines climate. The energy flow within the sun results in a surface temperature of around 5800 K, so the spectrum of the radiation from the sun is similar to that of a 5800 K...
Article
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Energy and Ecosystems Use Some Lose Some

For Students 4th - 5th
Life on Earth is possible because energy flows one way through ecosystems, while matter cycles endlessly. Water and elements, such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur are examples of matter that cycles through ecosystems.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Heat Flow to Hotter Region

For Students 9th - 10th
Heat flow from a hot region to a cold region is described and explained. Applications of this phenomenon (specifically heat pumps and refrigerators) are discussed. Excellent graphics.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Electricity

For Students 3rd - 8th
Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. It is a secondary energy source which means that we get it from the conversion of other sources of energy, like coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear power and other natural sources, which...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: An Analogy: Biomass Pyramid vs. Energy Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what biomass and energy pyramids are and provides a table highlighting their differences.
Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Energy in Living Systems: Harnessing the Energy of the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
Background information on the history of photosynthesis. An explanation for how light is used to assist in making food for plants as the transfer of electrons allows energy to flow through the system.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: From Sunlight to Electric Current

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The lesson will first explore the concept of current in electrical circuits. Current will be defined as the flow of electrons. Photovoltaic (PV) cell properties will then be introduced. This will lead to the principle of "Conservation of...
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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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Other

S Cool: Engery Flow and Nutrient Cycle

For Students 6th - 8th
This website describes trophic levels, transfer of energy between trophic levels, pyramids of ecology, and nutrient cycles within the environment.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Energy Pyramid and Its Importance

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains the roles of consumers, producers, and detrivores or decomposers and how energy flows through the different levels of the energy pyramid of a tropical rainforest.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the flow of energy through ecosystems with this study guide.
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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: 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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