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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: Fitting Algae Into the Food Web
A lesson that helps students understand food chains and food webs. With the background information, interactive activity, and extensions, students will see the interconnectedness and interdependence of organisms. Activity has students...
Other
My Science Box: Food Chains
Students will use a card sorting activity to construct a food chain and identify the role of organisms within that chain. The cards represent different individuals in an ecosystem and will help students begin to understand the concepts...
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 Bob Pflugfelder
Science bob.com: Food Web and Food Chains
The difference between food chains and food webs is explained.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Bird's Eye View of the Desert Food Chain
Describes how a food chain works in a desert and how the Mojave desert food chain works in particular.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 2
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 3
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Primary Consumers in the Food Chain
Explains what a primary consumer's role in a food chain is and provides examples.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Food Webs
For this lesson, students learn about marine food webs and pyramids, and how energy flows through a marine ecosystem. They then research a marine organism and its role in a marine food web. The class pools their information to create a...
NOAA
Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Estuary Food Pyramid
Students learn about the feeding relationships in an estuary ecosystem with this interactive energy pyramid activity. A second activity involves research and a video clip to elaborate the learning.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Food Webs
Young scholars construct possible food webs for six different ecosystems as they learn about the roles of producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores and decomposers.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
Learners analyze food chains, webs, and pyramids to determine how energy flows and matter cycles through ecosystems.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Forces of Change: Weaving the Web
The students will become the food web in this fun interactive classroom activity. Detailed instructions, background information, guiding questions, and activity worksheets are provided.
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...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ecology Disrupted: Chesapeake Bay Food Web
In this comprehensive lesson unit, students examine how overfishing has affected Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem. They will study food webs from the past and present and graph related data.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nhmu: Living Food Web
Fourth graders will be able to name some plants and animals that live in Utah's desert, forest or wetland ecosystems.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 3 Web of Life
Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.
Other
Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization of an Ecosystem Aqa
This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
PBS
Pbs: The Living Edens: The Food Chain
PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.