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.
Defenders of Wildlife
Kids' Planet: The Web of Life
The Web of Life is a story told by a common garden spider at this site from Kids' Planet. Learn about the food web, and the roles and relationships of every living creature.
Planet Pals
Planet Pals: The Food Chain
Omnivores, herbivores and carnivores are waiting for you. The food chain comes to life at this friendly site.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Ecosystems: Food Chain Pyramid
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive you will need to design a food chain that corresponds with the correct ecosystem. You will need a sign-in to access the media but it will be well worth your time!
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.18 Food Chain
Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up
This activity allows students to make a simple model food chain and observe how toxic chemicals can become concentrated in the bodies of consumers at the top of the chain.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Seasonal Upwelling
A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...
Other
My Science Box: Food Webs
In this lesson plan, 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.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Marine Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the marine food chain.
Read Works
Read Works: The Food Chain
[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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain
Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Consumers and Decomposers
[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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Autotrophs and Heterotrophs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how autotrophs and heterotrophs obtain energy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 3
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 4
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 2
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Food Chain
Have a look at a simple food chain and others that are more complex. Then construct a series of food chains by playing a drag-and-drop game.