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Predators and Prey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. In small groups, they play a game that simulates the...
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Balance of Nature Pyramid

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the concept of food chains and create a physical forest food chain pyramid. In this balance of nature pyramid lesson, students identify the ingredients needed on each level of the pyramid then make connections...
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Wetlands Are Wonderlands!

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the wetlands. They participate in numerous activities to explore food chains, food webs, and energy in the ecosystem. Students read stories, sing songs, visit specified websites, and participate in games to discover...
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Predator/Prey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. They play a game that simulates the food chain.
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Who's Coming to Dinner?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students identify the role predators/prey play in food chains, differentiate between food chains and webs, identify factors that affect the balance in food webs, and propose solutions to protect endangered species' environments and...
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Recyclers to the Rescue

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the concept of the food chain and define producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. They draw a food chain for a mouse and discuss the different organisms involved in the chain, and conduct an...
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Habitat survival

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study different environments and how the food chain affects the survival of different animals. For this environments lesson plan, 6th graders share the visuals which describe the characteristics of the environment that they...
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Carmaleetas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars identify the relationship between predator and prey in the food chain. In this food chain lesson, students work in groups and play a predator and prey game. Young scholars discover what happens when a predator does not...
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Circle of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students consider why we eat and where our food obtains its energy. They illustrate food chains that might be found on an open field, dissect owl pellets, identify the remains of animals in the pellets, watch videos and participate in...
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Who Is Eating Whom?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the food chain and identify if various organisms are producers or consumers. They draw ten types of organisms and construct a food web of these organisms, labelling each as a producer or consumer.
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How do pollutants bioaccumulate and biomagnify?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners review the basic concepts of the food chain. In small groups, they research an organism and create a food web. In addition, they study biomagnifications and write a brief essay or make a poster informing others about the...
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Predator and Prey Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the why the balance among producers, predators and prey is necessary in order for an ecosystem to be sustained over time. Through web games and activities, they discover how each component of the food chain works...
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Cause And Effects Of Pollutants In Ecosystems

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders define what an ecosystem is, what its make up is and how pollution effects it.  In this air pollution lesson students identify the cause and effects of pollution on an ecosystem and trace a food chain. 
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Animal Relationships

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study energy pyramids, food chains and food webs.  In this animal relationships lesson students complete several activities and play a game. 
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The Web of Life - Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine the concepts of ecosystems and interdependence. They construct block pyramids to demonstrate interdependence, and map off an area to observe and identify animals. They create food chain mobiles and play a web of life game.
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Ecology and the St. Lawrence River

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders complete a unit of lessons on ecosystems, organism interactions, and energy flow. They create a key for known species of fish, diagram the movement of energy through an ecosystem, and create and present food chains and food...
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Dissecting Owl Pellets

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine owl pellets and what their diet consisted of, specifically rodents. This furthers their understanding of simple food chains as well as bone structure and identification.
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Sharks

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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Animal Homes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how an animal's relationship to its habitat affect the animal's survival. They discuss animal habitats and the animal's relationship to that habitat through the food chain, life cycle, community, and balance of nature....
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Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the book, Look To The North: A Wolf Pup Diary. They find five facts about wolves and discuss with their groups. Students explore the timeline of a wolf pup and create a food chain for three of the animals found in the book.
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Food Webs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify predator/prey relationships based on the food web of the tropical rain forest ecosystem and realize they need a food web for survival. In this food web lesson plan, students complete a role play activity being animals...
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Slow Food: A Different Path

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the slow food movement through a reading and activity. In this slow food lesson, students read about the differences in fast food and slow food and the ties to sustainable agriculture. They nominate a local specialty...
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Activity 1: Please Pass the Energy, Food Webs in the Upper Ocean and Hydrothermal Vent Communities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create food webs for two different ocean communities. They are given cards showing organisms from the surface of the ocean. They arrange them in order of who eats whom. After this class activity, students create a food web for...
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Food Webs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students produce a newspaper covering topics related to food webs. They use print and electronic sources to gather information about specific animals. They share their information with the class.

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