[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining important vocabulary involving the food chain. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.

Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.

This lesson will explain how to create a food web to show transfer of energy within a community. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Food Webs."

Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.

Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.

Discussion of what makes up a food chain and its significance. Includes some historical perspectives on developing the concept, and on how a pesticide called DDT affected food chains during the 1960's.

This animation discusses the food chain in a storybook format. The chain is described as a cycle and both herbivores and carnivores are discussed.

PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.

In this lesson, students will choose an organism of their choice and research its life cycle, food chain, diet, and habitat, then predict how habitat change might affect the organisms living within it.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various 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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to identify and manipulate food chains.

In this ecosystem consisting of hawks, snakes, rabbits and grass, the population of each species can be studied as part of a food chain. Disease can be introduced for any species, and the number of animals can be increased or decreased...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great introduction to ways animals get food, characteristics of animals, habitats around the world. It contains pictures that will help students understand life cycles and where to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this flipchart students will be able to summarize and organize simple food chains.

Investigate the interdependence of wildlife in the Yellowstone ecosystem and draw an ecosystem showing the interdependence of life forms.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains and webs represent feeding relationships.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains represent feeding relationships.

A module that explains what an ecosystem is and how energy and matter move through them. Students will look at the different roles of plants and animals and at ecological relationships in food chains and food webs.

This lesson focuses on food chains in ecosystems, including levels of consumers, decomposers, and a list of common words used with food chains and their definitions. It also provides a link to an assessment.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Producers make their own food through photosynthesis. But many organisms are not producers and cannot make their own food, but must get their energy from other...

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...

In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), food webs and their significance will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson provided by Julie Danley and Pam Walston.