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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Flow of Energy Song

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perform the lyrics and instrumental parts for the "Flow of Energy song." They create photo images which represent consumers, producers, decomposers, and scavengers. These images will be inserted in an iMovie of the class...
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Organizer
Curated OER

What is a Food Web?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this food web worksheet, students will brainstorm organisms and classify them as either a consumer, producer, or decomposer. Students will write the organisms under the correct category in this graphic organizer worksheet.
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Activity
Food Project

Trace The French Fry

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
How does locally grown produce sold at a farmer's market compare to a more complex industrial system in the way they each affect the environment, people, and the economy? Pupils explore the different types of food systems and how they...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Producers, Consumers, and the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss producers, consumers, and the food chain. In this producers and consumers instructional activity, 3rd graders talk about organisms, the food chain, and the difference between producers and consumers. They complete...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forest Food Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider the interdependency of life in a temperate forest by studying selected organisms from an Asian temperate forest and creating a food web.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Nutritional Relationships Chart

For Students 5th - 8th
Producers, Herbivores, Carnivores, Decomposers, oh my! Help organize the intricacies between these four types of eaters with this biology worksheet. Scientists display nutritional relationships in a graphic organizer. They place 15 terms...
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Lesson Plan
Purdue University

Eco-llapse

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
A balanced ecosystem doesn't mean balanced populations. Budding scientists complete a series of activities to learn about the relationship between producers and consumers in an ecosystem. They complete the wildlife conservation...
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Curated OER

Food Chain Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Transform young biologists into grasshoppers, lizards, and hawks as you teach them about food chains in an interactive life science simulation. Working collaboratively to act out three different scenarios involving these creatures,...
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K12 Reader

Plants Are Producers

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Here's a handy two-part worksheet that uses an article about plants to assess reading comprehension. After reading the passage, kids answer questions based on the information in the text.
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Baylor College

Plant Parts You Eat

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Plants provide a variety of delicious foods essential for human survival. In the fourth lesson of this series on food science, young scientists investigate common fruits, vegetables, and grains in order to determine which plant part is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Day Without Agriculture

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define and create a list of agricultural products.  In this producers and consumers instructional activity, 2nd graders participate in a contest to find as many types of agriculture as they can.  The student who comes up...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Agriculture Pays

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders role play one of the jobs related to agriculture and explain their role in getting one of the five "f's" of agriculture to the consumer.  In this agriculture lesson plan, 2nd graders are assigned a role and a commodity. ...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chains and Webs

For Teachers 6th - 10th
In this food chains worksheet, students identify the producers and consumers in the given food chains and describe how contaminants can biologically accumulate. This worksheet has 4 short answer questions.
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California State Parks

Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
One of the key concepts in life science and biology is the cycling of energy throughout an ecosystem. Learners can take notes on the topic using the vocabulary included within the presentation. From producers making their own food...
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Activity
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Creating Chains and Webs to Model Ecological Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The sustainability of an ecosystem depends on many factors and changes constantly. Young scholars consider these factors as they use a set of cards to create food webs. They review key scientific vocabulary such as predator, prey,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Webs

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss and describe consumers and producers. They discuss and describe predator-prey relationship. Students review food chains. They form a circle, and each student is given an ecosystem card. Student at the top is given...
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Interactive
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Producers and Consumers Quiz

For Students 5th - 8th
For this producers and consumers quiz worksheet, students complete an on-line quiz, clicking on questions and matching answers, scoring 1 point for each correct answer. A printed version is available.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prairie Food Chains & Webs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners complete a food chain. In this ecosystem lesson, students learn about producers, consumers and decomposers. Learners identify herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and complete two worksheets.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Food Web

For Students 6th - 8th
In this food web instructional activity, students label the organisms shown as a producer or consumer and as a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. Students create their own food web with a list of given animals.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forest Food Chains and Webs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore forest ecological systems. In this ecology lesson, students classify forest plants and animals according to their ecological roles. Students play a related vocabulary guessing game.  Students choose a card on which a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Chains

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study food chains, producers, consumers, and decomposers. They play a food chain game and create food chain mobiles or posters. They take a nature hike around the school and observe various parts of a food chain.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flow of Energy Through An Ecosystem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this flow of energy in an ecosystem, students complete a graphic organizer and show the flow of energy from the sun to producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers and then decomposers. Students define each of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transfer of Energy

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this transfer of energy worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer that shows the relationship between the sun, producers, first order consumers and second order consumers. They describe why it is important to understand the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ecosystems at School

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this ecosystem worksheet, students use a string and make a large circle. Everything in the circle is part of the ecosystem the students will study. They identify everything in their ecosystem and classify their data. They answer 2...

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