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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Modeling Food Webs in Darién, Panama

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
It's a jungle out there! Young biologists journey to Darien, Panama to examine the intricate relationships between the organisms that inhabit the jungle. Groups begin by demonstrating an understanding of energy flow in ecosystems, then...
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Curated OER

What Does Earth Day Mean? - Biology Teaching Thesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students possible sources of water pollution, and explain the effects that water pollution can have on the food on the food chain. They Name human and other animal (i.e. fish) illnesses that can be contracted from drinking polluted...
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Simply Worksheets

Food Chain Word Scramble

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this food chain words learning exercise, students unscramble the food chain words and then find a hidden word. Students unscramble 14 words total.
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Curated OER

Biomass Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Junior ecologists relate how food chains and food webs route matter and energy through an ecosystem. They trace feeding levels of a food chain or food web through a pyramid of energy. As a reinforcement activity, learners construct three...
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Wild BC

Bearly Any Ice

For Teachers 5th - 8th
After reviewing food chains, your class members participate in an arctic predator-prey game that exemplifies the impact of climate change of food availability. If you are in a hurry, skip this instructional activity, but if you have the...
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DePaul University

Breaking the Food Chain

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Throughout history, the growth of big cities has resulted in the destruction of ecosystems. In the case of Chicago, IL, a grassland that was once home to bison, deer, wolves, and foxes quickly became a booming city of over three million...
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Curated OER

Food Chains & Food Webs

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine how energy is lost through different trophic levels.  In this trophism lesson students construct a food web and view a video. 
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Exploring Nature Educational Resources

Building A Classroom Food Web

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
From bears and owls to chipmunks and trees, all life depends on the sun for the energy to survive. Young biologists develop an understanding of this big idea as they arrange this series of plant and animal picture cards into food webs...
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Curated OER

Shark Food

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a linking chain to demonstrate the food chain.  In this food chain lesson, students use the Internet to research sharks, including what they eat, and create a chain link with a picture of a shark.  They continue this...
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Curated OER

Web of Predators and Prey

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the food chain by researching the Internet.  For this ecosystem lesson, students view the video "Competitor and Predator" and read a book from the series "The Magic School Bus."  Middle schoolers utilize a...
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Curated OER

Rainforest Food Chain

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate a rainforest food chain. In this ecology lesson, students are shown pictures of plants and list what animals might eat the plants. Students continue to think of what other animals might eat those animals. Students...
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Curated OER

Food Web Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explain the main concepts of food webs and food chains. They describe the role of animals, plants, and other organisms in cycling energy and matter through a food web by creating mobiles. Lesson contains adaptations for all levels.
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Curated OER

Wetland Food Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study life science. In this food webs and food chains comparison lesson plan, students examine the wetlands to discover the relationships that exist between the animals that live there. They participate in group activities and...
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Curated OER

Rocky Shore Food Web Drama

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore food chains. In this ecosystem lesson plan, students discover how plants and animals rely on each other for survival. Students research the rocky shore ecosystem and create a skit representing the ecosystem.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Food Chains

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this food chain worksheet, students draw in a food web for 6 different habitats: woodland, garden, pond, sea, arctic, and desert. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Curated OER

Food Chains and Food Webs

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners discuss the characteristics of producers, consumers and decomposers. Using a flow chart, they construct a food chain to visually show how organisms with different energy sources depend upon one another. Students explore a...
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Curated OER

Food Chains

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate food chains. They review cycles and discuss ecosystems. They select an environment and create a food chain in small groups. They write their food chain and label it for the class to evaluate. They create...
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Curated OER

Links in a Food Chain

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Little ones make costumes and act out a rhyme in which there are daisies, bugs, wrens, snakes, and foxes that all interact in a food web. This would be a memorable activity for primary life scientists to participate in as a wrap-up to a...
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It's About Time

Who Eats Whom?

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Packed with visual aids and multiple learning opportunities, an engaging exercise challenges individuals as they explore the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. After discussing differences between food chains, food...
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NOAA

Seafood and Human Health

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Whether your young biologists realize it or not, humans play a significant role in marine ecosystems. To help them understand this fact children first create graphical representations that show homo sapiens' place in marine food chains,...
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August House

Go to Sleep, Gecko

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Use this multidisciplinary lesson to delve into these subjects: English language arts, math, science, drama, and character education. After reading, discussing, and making interpretations about Go To Sleep, Gecko!: A Balinese Folktale by...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Modeling Trophic Cascades

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
In the ecological game of who eats who, one small change can have a big impact! Individuals create food chains in an array of ecosystems, then determine what happens to organisms in the chain when one organism changes its feeding...
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Curated OER

Food Chains and Endangered Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate how all links in the food chain are related. In this animal habitat lesson plan, students hypothesize about what would happen in the food chain if an endangered species were to become extinct. This lesson plan also...
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Curated OER

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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