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Science NetLinks: Changing World 1: Endocrine Disruptors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate how environmental surprises and endocrine disruptors influence perceptions of benefits and costs. The decisions of science are under these type of influences and must be thought out with a definite method.
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Science and Technology Discussion Questions

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
With this science and technology discussion worksheet, students take turns asking each other five questions regarding their opinions about science and technology. Afterward, the class discusses any problems the students had with...
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Invasive Species Science Experiement

For Students 3rd
In this invasive species instructional activity, 3rd graders complete a hands on science experiment.  students then record their observations and results.
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Science Quiz on Dogs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science quiz on dogs worksheet, students answer ten questions about dogs before scrolling down to see the correct answers.
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Science Quiz: Plants

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science quiz:  plants instructional activity, students answer 10 questions about botany trivia, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Food KWL Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this food chart worksheet, students determine what they know, what they want to learn, and what they have learned about food by completing the KWL chart.
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Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the food chain by viewing video clips. In this food web lesson plan, 5th graders investigate populations and ecosystems by viewing a video in class as well as visiting web sites. Students utilize the Internet to...
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The Frog and the Ol' Black Fly

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore frogs.  In this cross curriculum literacy and frogs lesson, students predict the plot and then listen to the book The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner. Students define "predator" and identify foods a frog might...
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Web of Predators and Prey

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the food chain by researching the Internet.  In this ecosystem lesson plan, students view the video "Competitor and Predator" and read a book from the series "The Magic School Bus."  Students utilize a...
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Food and the Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the digestive system. For this human biology lesson, students read an article about the digestive system and go onto a suggested website to review what they have learned. Students are asked questions as an assessment.
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Owl Pellets

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the role of owls in their ecosystem. In this food chain lesson, 6th graders illustrate an owl food chain, dissect an owl pellet, and analyze data. Students discuss what would happen to owls if there were an...
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Something Fishy - Bioaccumulation of Mercury

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the dangers of eating high levels of mercury and how small amounts of mercury in water accumulate in greater quantities in organisms higher in the food chain. They list the health of effects of high levels of mercury on...
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Jr. Chef Club Super Snacks Lesson 6

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore healthy snacks. In this nutrition and cooking lesson, students observe and identify food groups on USDA's MyPyramid food guide. Students discuss how fiber helps our digestive system and follow a recipe using yeast to...
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Breaking It Down

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explain the mechanism of digestion. For this biology lesson, 7th graders perform an iodine test to check for the presence of starch. They discuss how energy travels through the food chain.
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Science - The Digestive System

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this digestive system worksheet, students solve problems asking about the digestive system. Students solve 17 problems where they write true or false, or identify the correct body part.
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Through the Eyes of an Owl

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students describe vertebrates in terms of observable body parts and characteristics and describe life cycles of familiar organisms. They identify familiar organisms as part of a food chain or food web and describe their feeding...
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From Milk to Cheese and Seed to Shelf

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about food production by making cheese, seeing how a seed gets to a shelf, and discussing food safety. In this food production lesson plan, students complete 3 days worth of activities and learn about food production,...
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Field Trip to the Watsonville Wetlands

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the differences between food webs and food chains.  In this wetland lesson students play a food web game and go on a scavenger hunt. 
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A Day on the Farm

For Teachers 1st
First graders, with a collection of various art supplies, plant a seed to observe it growing and record specific data on a data record sheet. They create a collage from various magazines of ten different foods farm animals eat and make a...
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Shark Attack Odds and the Importance of Sharks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine an ecosystem. In this food web lesson, students discover the importance of sharks and what threat sharks actually pose to humans. They participate in class discussions and work independently on a couple of...
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The Interdependence of Birds and the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders participate in the "Checks and Balances" game. This game lets them experience the interdependence of oragnisms specific to the Great Salt Lake. They recieved informaton about food chains, food webs, trophic levels various...
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Organisms and Their Environments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study a local ecosystem and research the organisms to create a food web. In this ecosystem instructional activity, students view a video and answer questions. They visit a local ecosystem and make a list of organisms to...
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Who Eats Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students recognize that some animals eat plants, some eat meat and some both.  For this who eats who lesson, students chart animals in a food chain.  Students research information from reading articles.  Students chart...
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Food Journal Exercise

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are required not to change their usual eating pattern while recording everything they eat and drink for 1 day. They evaluate the nutrient composition of their diet, as well as their dietary intake and behavior within the...

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