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Which One Matters?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners study the balance necessary to maintain ecosystems and how changing that balance can impact the ecosystem. They identify and discuss the need for balance in any ecosystem and discuss how greenhouse gases impact ecosystems.
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Food Chains and Endangered Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate how all links in the food chain are related. In this animal habitat lesson, students hypothesize about what would happen in the food chain if an endangered species were to become extinct. This lesson also includes an...
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Populations and Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders define terms prey, predator, and scavenger, describe predator-prey relationship, discuss effects of a lack of predators in an environment, and separate the role of the scavenger from that of the predator.
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Populations and Ecosystems

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a model of an ecosystem and label it to show structure and function. They research the food web of an aquatic animal and also trace energy flow from the primary producer up the food chain.
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Food Chains

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars investigate the food chain. In this ecology lesson, students define producers and consumers. Young scholars use organism cards to demonstrate how the food chain works.
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Bats are Our Buddies!

For Students 5th - 8th
In this bats worksheet, learners click on the links in the questions about bats to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 19 questions total.
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Forest Ecology

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners examine the different plants and animals in British Columbia.  In this forest ecology lesson students explore how ecosystems work, classify animals and investigate food webs and chains. 
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Food Chains Are Not A Necklace!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine how food chains interact with different plants and animals. They practice using new vocabulary. They also discover the role of pesticides in the environment.
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Animals: Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match words related to animals to their correct definition. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Marvelous Mammals Crossword

For Students 4th - 6th
For this mammals worksheet, students use clues given to complete a crossword puzzle of words associated with mammals. An answer key is included.
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Secrets of the Ocean Realm - Survival in the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine the sequential links in a marine food chain and identify the roles that various organisms play in this chain. Students develop charts as visual aids for illustrating marine food chains.
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Constructing A Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils identify and explain the relationships within a food web. They use index cards to glue pictures of producers and consumers. On the back of the card, students name the organism, list the type of biome in which it is found.
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Who Is Eating Whom?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the food chain and identify if various organisms are producers or consumers. They draw ten types of organisms and construct a food web of these organisms, labelling each as a producer or consumer.
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Ecosystem Interactions Web

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students pick an ecosystem (forest, desert, coral reef, open ocean, grassland, mountain, savanna, etc.) and design an interaction web for their chosen ecosystem. Each group shares their ecosystem's web of life with the class.
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Ecology and The Endangered Species Act

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students listen to a lecture about the basics of Ecology. They take a field trip in which they observe a specific organism and their characteristics.
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Insect Travel Brochure

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study producers and consumers in habitats. They examine the trophic levels and how different organisms interact with a focus on insects. They create a travel brochure for an insect to visit a habitat which they create.
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Bats

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students model how the bones in a bat wing are organized. They develop questions about bat body parts based on photographs. They hypothesize how bats locate their food.
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Dinosaur Daze

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review, create, and inquire about dinosaurs, the fossilization process, and paleontology by successfully completing each of six classroom stations.
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Identifying Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate basic information about dinosaurs. They listen to the book, "My Visit To the Dinosaurs," explore various websites, take an online quiz, and play an online dinosaur game.
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Food Webs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.
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Mighty Earth Movers

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
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Food Webs and Chains

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how simple food chains and food webs function. They examine an illustrated food chain/food web and identify the producers and consumers. Students then sequence pictures of animals into a food web, and create their...
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Producers and Energy Transfer

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss the relationship between producers, consumers, and decomposers as they look at the energy pyramid. While working in small groups, they create an ecosystem that includes all or some of the given categories, and they...
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My Biotic Creation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore different ecosystems.  In this ecosystem survival lesson plan conditions lesson plan students create their own fictional creature.

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