TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Food Chains and Food Webs
This lesson, supported by the provided power point lecture (LESSON 1 and 2 Ecology Lecture Supplement ), introduces students to the concepts of food chains and food webs. Through its use, students learn the difference between producers...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Constructing Sonoran Desert Food Chains and Food Webs
Is the food chain shown above accurate? Does the first link depict a producer, the second link a herbivore, and the third link an omnivore / carnivore? Students must correctly determine whether a species is a producer or consumer, and...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biodomes
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Autotrophs and Heterotrophs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how autotrophs and heterotrophs obtain energy.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Food Chains and Webs
Trace the energy transfer through food chains and food webs. Check your understanding by hovering your mouse over questions to reveal the answers.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Web of Life Game
Fun, interactive game that helps students identify interrelationships in an ecosystem. For six or more players.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Mammal Structure and Function
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the function of various structures in mammals.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Food Webs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A close look at how animals and the environment interact with one another and specifically how the feeding relationships in a food web.
PBS
Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Food Web
A comprehensive overview of food webs. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities, a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organisms and Environments: Organisms Interactions
Learn about food webs, food chains, and organisms interactions in this interactive tutorial.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Animal Ecosystems, Adaptations and Food Chains
This unit contains interactive lessons on animal ecosystems, animal classification, adaptations, and food chains.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Ecosystems: Food Chain Pyramid
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive you will need to design a food chain that corresponds with the correct ecosystem. You will need a sign-in to access the media but it will be well worth your time!
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Trophic Levels
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how to identify trophic levels in a food chain or food web.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Differentiated Tiering Food Web and Chains Activity
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...
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Food Chain
Have a look at a simple food chain and others that are more complex. Then construct a series of food chains by playing a drag-and-drop game.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Breaking the Food Chain [Pdf]
"Breaking the Food Chain" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about the food chain which links plants and animals. If the food chain is disrupted, it can cause plants and animals to disappear. It is followed by...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant
Learners 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...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Antarctic Food Web Challenge
Discover how energy flows as part of a food web. Identify the ultimate source of energy for organisms on Earth.