TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow
Learners learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
Read Works
Read Works: Dinosaur World
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about dinosaurs and how scientists learn about them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Kidport
Kidport: Who Eats What?
At this site students are encouraged to try and answer questions that relate to what animals eat. At the bottom of the web page are beautiful pictures of land and sea animals and when selected, students will be able to read short facts...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Food Chains
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this flipchart students will be able to summarize and organize simple food chains.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Food Chain in the Tundra Region
Describes the characteristics of a tundra biome, how a tundra food chain compares to a tropical food chain, and what the different trophic levels look like.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
Other
My Science Box: Food Chains
Students will use a card sorting activity to construct a food chain and identify the role of organisms within that chain. The cards represent different individuals in an ecosystem and will help students begin to understand the concepts...
Treehut
Suzy's World: Eye
Find out how your eyes work and try an experiment involving a cartoon flip book.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dinosaurs for Kids
Dinosaurs: Kids learn about these ancient animals that wondered the Earth thousands of years ago. We know about them from studying fossils.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Diversity of Birds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] About 10,000 bird species belong to 29 different orders within the class Aves. The diversity among birds is striking. Birds can vary greatly in size and color. Some...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Roles in an Ecosystem
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different roles in an ecosystem.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Antarctic Food Web Challenge
Discover how energy flows as part of a food web. Identify the ultimate source of energy for organisms on Earth.
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.