Students learn about inheritance, evolution, and ecosystems. Some topics explored in the tutorial are five kingdoms, respiration, energy transfer, and nutrient cycle.

Take an interactive quiz over ecology and ecosystems. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.

Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.

A research activity where middle schoolers research the various biotic and abiotic factors that combine to make up a biome. The end product will be the creation of a PowerPoint presentation that identifies these factors and the creation...

An extended field investigation intended as launch into several concepts in environmental science including biodiversity, human impacts on natural systems, and energy transfer in ecosystems.

Trace the energy transfer through food chains and food webs. Check your understanding by hovering your mouse over questions to reveal the answers.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Videos, texts, activities, and assessments about food chains and food webs in an ecosystem.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.

Slideshow that looks at energy flow in an ecosystem. Explains what an ecosystem is, how energy flows through it, the producers and consumers of energy, and food chains. Links to a video about plastic debris in the ocean.

Students begin this lesson by making observations and recording evidence of the variety of living things in local nature site. Students use reference materials to research predators and food of the animals they observed, then illustrate...

Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over concepts in ecology, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.

Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.

Two differentiated tasks about food chains and webs. In the more challenging task, students construct a food web to show the relationship of the animals and plants in a given environment. In the lower level task, students create a food...

Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.

Students learn how rooftop gardens help the environment and the lives of people, especially in urban areas. They gain an understanding of how plants reduce the urban heat island effect, improve air quality, provide agriculture space,...

Learn about the transfer of energy in the ecosystem.