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Food Chains and Webs
Starting with a simple food chain, young scientists interpret the difference and interrelatedness between herbivores, carnivores and producers. They answer questions related to cause and effect of food chain disruptions, including the...
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Life And Death
Students participate in an interactive game to review how living things are classified.
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Food Chains
Have your class discuss food chains using this presentation. This resource goes through a step by step exploration of plants and the food chain. It talks about the energy of the sun, producers and consumers, herbivores and carnivores,...
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Food Chain
Students explore the cycle of how each living thing gets food. In this food chain unit, students participate in four lesson plans that highlight animal vocabulary, habitats, and the role of humans in our ecosystem. Students demonstrate...
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Food Grab
Students analyze animal adaptations. For this animal adaptation lesson, students create food-gathering devices. Students design devices that would protect animals or plants from predators.
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What Do Snails Eat?
Students conduct a food choice experiment with snails, recording the results on a chart to determine what snails eat. In this what do snails eat lesson plan, students color a picture of snail anatomy, perform the experiment with 3 food...
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What's for Dinner?
Students investigate the dietary habits of living organisms by creating a model food chain. Â For this food web lesson, students define several food chain vocabulary words such as omnivore, carnivore and herbivore. Â Students utilize...
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Animal Feeding Strategies
In this animal types learning exercise, students review the Latin portions of the animal type words: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and insectivore. Students then define the meaning of the animal types and label the animal pictures with...
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Food Chains, Food Webs, Biomass Pyramids and Cycle
In this food chains worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by placing 16 terms into the puzzle that match the clues given. Students review food webs, biomass pyramids, and the water cycle.
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Biodiversity
In this biodiversity worksheet, students sort and classify animals by their observable features using a dichotomous key. Students then respond to questions about complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
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The Biosphere
In this biosphere worksheet, students identify the different levels of organization that ecologists study. Students complete charts, sentences, and answer short answer questions.
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What's For Dinner?
In this animal diet instructional activity, students define herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore. Then students label pictures of animals as either herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores. This instructional activity has 3 short answer and 6...
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Ingestion
In this ingestion instructional activity, 9th graders fill in the blank about ingestion. Students relate the role of saliva, teeth, and the esophagus to their importance in ingestion.
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Energy Flow in a Food Chain
In this energy flow worksheet, students will fill in the 3 steps that energy flows through a food chain after it leaves the sun.
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How Do Plants and Animals Get Energy?
In this food chain activity, students will determine where plants and animals get their energy by filling in the blank of 4 statements.
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Animal Classification
Learners watch video and slide shows as an introduction to animals. They discuss classifications of animals while moving from most common to least common of the animals. Types of classifications includes herbivores/carnivores;...
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Science: Coral Reef Food Pyramid
Students construct numbers pyramids using fictional data from a coral reef. they tally the numbers of carnivores, herbivores, and producers. Students next build a pyramid shape in which they put their numbers of producers, herbivores,...
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Create a Food Chain
Students explore the food chain and the ways that animals depend on each other and on plants for food. They create a paper chain with different colors relating to carnivores and herbivores. The chains are linked to the sun to create a...
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Wildlife Animal Skulls
Students observe skulls of wild animals and determine their characteristics for survival. They evaluate the skuylls to discover the diets, and if the animals were predators or prey. They complete worksheets on mystery skulls.
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Food Chain Chant
Learners memorize a poem using various reading strategies to reinforce the concept of the food chain and the terminology associated with it.
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Animals Abound
Students explore the world of mammals, birds, and fish to compare and contrast their habitats, adaptations, and camouflages. Through research, musical experiences, and hands-on activities, the lives and adventures of these animals are...
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Aquatic Food Webs
Middle schoolers discuss producers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and decomposers and analyze the difference between food chains and food webs. They participate in a food web yarn game, examining what can effect the breakdown of the...
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
For this life science worksheet, students review terms such as genetics, mutation, trait, predator, and herbivore by completing 8 questions in this crossword puzzle.
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Digestive System
In this digestive system worksheet, students answer a list of true/ false questions. The students answer questions based on their knowledge of each process of the digestive system.