The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 2: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-2: interdependent relationships in ecosystems.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Biological Energy Food Chain Practice
After reviewing the roles of consumers, producers and decomposers, you'll create your own food chains using pictures from magazines. The site also has 18 questions to see if you can identify the ecologic role played by various organisms.
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: The Importance of Biological Interactions
Organisms have a variety of relationships. In this lesson, students learn to categorize relationships according to their impact on organisms and the terminology for these biological interactions.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Experiment With Ecosystems
Learn what happens to different populations of organisms as their ecosystem changes. Design your own experiment and make your own guesses with what the result will be with this virtual ecosystem. Also experiment with producer/consumer...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem: Self Check Quiz
Try this five question comprehension check over ecosystems and the ecological relationships within them.
Oswego City School District
Regents Prep: Ecosystems/communities
Abiotic factors vary in the environment and determining the types and numbers of organisms that exist in that environment. Factors which determine the types and numbers of organisms of a species in an ecosystem are called limiting...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.2 Ecological Organization
See how ecosystems are organized into several different levels, and an ecosystem can be studied at any one of the various levels of organization.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Can't We All Just Get Along?" by Bird Brain Science
Earth is full of a variety of living things that interact with one another in many different ways. This informational text explains the various different types of relationships they can have with one another. It also offers guided...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Desert
Describes three types of symbiotic relationships that can be found in a desert biome.
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Relationships Between Organisms
Species interact every day. That interaction is a vital part of how organisms develop and change over time. When you study species, it is important to watch the way they interact with their surroundings. There are four basic types of...
Other
The Habitable Planet Simulation
This activity is designed to accompany an interactive on the Annenberg Learner website. Students investigate the changes that take place in an ecosystem when they alter the organisms in a food web. As they work with the simulation, they...
Other
S Cool: Engery Flow and Nutrient Cycle
This website describes trophic levels, transfer of energy between trophic levels, pyramids of ecology, and nutrient cycles within the environment.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Schoolyard Bio Blitz
For this activity, students visit a small section of the schoolyard and record observations in a scientific journal. They will observe different things as the school year progresses, including ecological relationships, human impact on...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: An Introduction to and Investigation on Keystone Species
A middle school ecology project in which students learn about ecosystems and the keystone species which inhabit them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Symbiosis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of symbiotic relationships.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Tundra
Explains what mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism look like in a tundra biome.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Ecosystem Study
Studets investigate the health of an ecosystem and the effects of water, sunlight, nutrients or pollutants. They determine the change in the environment through observation, journaling, and measuring growth of the plants and living...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Living Organisms and Their Environment
A tutorial podcast providing an overview of the interdependence of organisms in their environment. [1:05]
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigation a Food Web: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Being field scientists, students will explore a wooded area in their community and journal about their observations. Students will collect information about producers, consumers, and decomposers in the ecosystem. They will then construct...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environmental Interactions
In this activity, students create a "web" to identify and demonstrate the interactions among the living and non-living parts of an environment. This information allows students to better understand what an environment is and to also...
Other
Texas/fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Fossil Rim is a refuge center for endangered species and is located "50 miles southwest of Fort Worth." The site is an excellent resource for classroom teachers and students. It features word games, coloring pages, pictures and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Butterfly Bush Visitors
In this lesson plan, the children learn about how critters depend on the butterfly bush and how the butterfly bush, in turn, depends on it. Common Core writing skills are integrated as they take it to the next step, and create their own...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Importance of Birds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] You are probably familiar with birds as food. Around the world, people consume chicken, turkey, and even more exotic birds, like ostriches. Can you think of other...