Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Marine Food Webs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students learn about marine food webs and pyramids, and how energy flows through a marine ecosystem. They then research a marine organism and its role in a marine food web. The class pools their information to create a...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Predatory Prey Relationships: The Fox and the Rabbit Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity helps students understand how predator-prey interactions affect population sizes and how competitive interactions affect population sizes. They will also explore the major factors that influence the predator-prey relationship.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Predation

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Predation is another mechanism in which species interact with each other. Predation is when a predator organism feeds on another living organism or organisms, known...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.8 Predation

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand the predator-prey relationship in an ecosystem.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Experiment With Ecosystems

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn what happens to different populations of organisms as their ecosystem changes. Design your own experiment and make your own guesses with what the result will be with this virtual ecosystem. Also experiment with producer/consumer...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Catch Me if You Can

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain the predator/prey relationship and how it helps to maintain the balance of the ecosystems.
Handout
PBS

Pbs Teachers:denali: The Wolf and the Moose: Predator and Prey Relationships

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Examine the predator/prey relationship between wolves and moose in Alaska's Denali National Park and discuss how the balance of nature works between these two animals.
Lesson Plan
Other

Pde Sas: Relationships Among Organisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students compare various types of relationships among organisms (i.e., biotic interactions). Students will: explain the roles of producers and consumers, and predators and prey in an ecosystem. Explain the levels of order...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Deciduous Forest

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains what a symbiotic relationship is, the five main types of symbiosis, and provides examples of symbiotic relationships among living things in a deciduous forest.
Handout
MadSci Network

Symbiotic Relationships in the Deciduous Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief definition of symbiotic, followed by explanations of mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
Lesson Plan
BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Frog Eat Frog World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using maps and graphs of large data sets collected in FrogWatch, middle schoolers will determine the range, preferred land cover, and proximity to water of the American bullfrog to figure out the bullfrog's requirements for food, water,...
Handout
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Relationships Between Organisms

For Students 3rd - 8th
Species interact every day. That interaction is a vital part of how organisms develop and change over time. When you study species, it is important to watch the way they interact with their surroundings. There are four basic types of...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
Handout
A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Siberian Tiger (Panthera Tigris Altaica)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and facts about the Siberian tiger. Discusses where they are found, predator-prey relationships, threats from humans, reproduction, and conservation status.
Interactive
Other

Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain

For Students 3rd - 5th
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Magic Rocks [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...
Website
PBS

Idaho Ptv: Dialogue for Kids: Wildlife Management

For Students 3rd - 5th
A collection of facts and links for learning about wildlife management. The facts cover what wildlife management is, the job of a wildlife manager, biodiversity, predators and prey, land capacity, habitat, and endangered animals. Other...
Unit Plan
Other

Biology at Shaw High School: What Do Living Things Need to Survive?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the interrelatedness of all living things and of ecosystems and biomes, and what organisms need to survive and to maximize the carrying capacity of an ecosystem. This explanation is followed by a series of activities including...
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson outlining activities for a science unit where students can learn about the relationships and the flow of energy within an ecosystem. These include predator and prey, hosts and parasites, and consumers, producers, and decomposers.