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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Life Cycles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students will extend their knowledge of matter and energy cycles in an organism to engineering life cycle assessment of a product. Students will learn about product life cycle assessment and the flow of energy...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Matter in Ecosystems

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How matter cycles within an ecosystem. SE 7.5B, 7.5C
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Matter in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will learn about the cycles of nature (water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) that support the flow of nutrient matter through an...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students 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...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Oxygen Cycle

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the oxygen cycle and how this nutrient travels through the ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Carbon Cycle

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the carbon cycle and how this nutrient travels through the ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Nitrogen Cycle

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the nitrogen cycle and how this nutrient travels through the ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Growing a Soil Menagerie

For Students 6th - 8th
Everything on our planet is linked by a giant recycling system called the biogeochemical cycle. How our planet recycles and reuses everything we need to support life is explained by making a miniature biosphere in this lab. You will also...
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Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Managing Salmon to Support Healthy Forests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students address the impact of unsustainable fishing practices.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Ecology Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a series of multi-media learning activities, students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and matter within their ecosystems.
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Other

College of Du Page: Energy in an Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Ecosystems contain two kinds of commodities: matter (nutrients) and energy. Nutrients cycle through the ecosystem, available for repeated use by organisms. These cycles of use and reuse are called biogeochemical cycles. Energy instead is...
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Other

Few: Human Impact on the Environment & Environmental Impact on Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
Human beings have an enormous impact on the natural environment, and ultimately on each other. The way we chose to house, clothe, shelter, and meet the needs for vital resources such as food, energy, and water, not only affect the...
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NASA

Nasa: The Basics of Ocean Chemistry: Carbon, Circulation, and Critters

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of ocean chemistry, supported by illustrations, for example, of the global carbon cycle in the 1980s and the annual carbon dioxide flux. The concentration of nutrients in the ocean is discussed for its impact on marine...
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Ecosystems and You

For Students 9th - 10th
Slideshow that looks at energy flow in an ecosystem. Explains what an ecosystem is, how energy flows through it, the producers and consumers of energy, and food chains. Links to a video about plastic debris in the ocean.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Fungi

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will provide the characteristics of the domain fungi.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...

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