Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organisms and Environments: Organisms Interactions
Learn about food webs, food chains, and organisms interactions in this interactive tutorial.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science bob.com: Food Web and Food Chains
The difference between food chains and food webs is explained.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Protect Our Planet Piece by Piece
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.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
This lesson plan provides an eight-day flow of educational activities in which students use the Great Salt Lake ecosystem to explore food webs and how changes in living and nonliving factors affect different populations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Food Chains and Food Webs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains and webs represent feeding relationships.
Other
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...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Food Web
Explains what a food web is, the complexity of one in a rainforest, and how energy flows through a food web.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Food Webs
A short lesson explaining the "web of interactions" that occur in a food web. Understand how the energy flows between autotrophs and consumers. [0:35]
Science Struck
Science Struck: Rainforest Food Web
Explains the characteristics of tropical and temperate rainforests and what rainforest food webs look like.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems
Understand how organisms acquire energy and how that energy is passed from one organism to another through food webs and their constituent food chains.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Animal Ecosystems, Adaptations and Food Chains
This unit contains interactive lessons on animal ecosystems, animal classification, adaptations, and food chains.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: The Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals
Explore the different ecological roles of organisms in the ecosystem, and find out how the energy flows through them.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:yellowstone: Yellowstone Food Web
Investigate the interdependence of wildlife in the Yellowstone ecosystem and draw an ecosystem showing the interdependence of life forms.
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.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science: The Living Sea: Predators and Prey
This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the plants.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Food Chains Moving Matter in an Ecosystem (Day 1)
Students will create a food chain model and use it to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Resources include a detailed lesson plan, student handouts, pictures of a completed chain,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Energy Transfer Through Food Chains
This tutorial review over food chains and how energy is transferred through them.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem
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.
Other
Marietta College: Environmental Biology Sequence: Food Chains and Webs
View examples and learn how animals impact the food chain.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 3 Web of Life
Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.