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Seas Of Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners brainstorm examples of predator and prey that are featured in a video they watch.  In this investigative lesson students will research an animal from the video and explain if it is a predator or prey and how it helps species...
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A Healthy Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students market healthy environments. In this healthy environment lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to examine the food web. Students then research healthy and unhealthy environments and use their findings to...
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Life in the Kelp Forest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and create a marine food web to learn about plants and animals in a kelp forest. In this marine food web lesson, students draw lines between kelp forest predators and prey and show the flow of energy in the food web....
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Populations: Food Web

For Students 5th - 6th
In this populations worksheet, learners analyze the food web given and answer three questions. Then they draw a food web and predict populations changes.
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Ecology: The Food Web

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ecology worksheet, students match the vocabulary to the definitions, then represent producers and consumers by drawing a Pyramid of Numbers.
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Soil in My Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explain the role of soil in the food web. In this agriculture lesson, students create a food web identifying how all items relate to soil, students play a game showing how interconnected the food web is, and they explain how...
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Food Chains and Endangered Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars investigate how all links in the food chain are related. In this animal habitat lesson, students hypothesize about what would happen in the food chain if an endangered species were to become extinct. This lesson also...
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The Food Web Word Search

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this food web word puzzle worksheet, students examine the 24 words and names in the word bank and locate them in the word search puzzle.
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Food Web Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this food web crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 23 clues to identify the correct terms that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Animal Feeding Strategies

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this food web study worksheet, learners record how 24 animals get their food. Each animal should categorized as a forager, grazer, filter feeder, parasite, predator, or scavenger on the graphic organizer.
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The Biosphere

For Students 7th - 9th
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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Invertebrate Jobs

For Students 5th - 12th
In this invertebrate worksheet, learners draw an example of invertebrates that have the following ecosystem jobs: scraper, predator, shredder, or collector. Then students draw lines to connect the invertebrates with the other items in...
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The Flow of Energy Through a Food Chain

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this food chain worksheet, students write in the steps that show how energy flows through a food chain, from producers to consumers. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Nutrition and Energy Flow

For Students 4th - 8th
In this energy flow worksheet, students will complete 10 short answer questions based on a food web diagram. Then students will review different cycles in nature including the water cycle, carbon cycle, and energy cycle. This worksheet...
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Food Chains

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students watch a movie about food chains and use it to respond to each of the questions stated. They use the list of works in the word banks to assist them in matching the correct term to its description.
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Final Review Word Search

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to reviewing biology. There are 47 words located in the puzzle.
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Prior Knowledge Investigation-Food Webs

For Teachers 7th
Students explore food webs. They identify any misconceptions of producers, consumers or decomposers and their relationship within a food web. Students draw an example of a food web for each of the examples that are given. They address...
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Food Webs and Chains

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how simple food chains and food webs function. They examine an illustrated food chain/food web and identify the producers and consumers. Students then sequence pictures of animals into a food web, and create their...
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Hide and Seek Science

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine macro-invertebrates in order to better understand their link to the food web. Working in groups, they record observations of several areas of a stream or river, collect samples from the river bottom, and identify the...
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Great Flathead Lake Ecosystem Mystery

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils analyze data to solve the mystery of what contributed to an ecological disaster at Great Flathead Lake. They read and graph the available data, create a food web of the problem ecosystem, and construct a formal problem statement...
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Forest Food Web

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars explore the elements of a forest ecosystem. They examine the elements needed to form a forest food web. Students construct and describe food webs that include nonliving elements of the ecosystem.
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Food Web

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are able to define food web, and identify the interdependence of organisms within a system. They are able to describe how natural events and human activities can impact a food web.
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Wetlands Are Wonderlands!

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the wetlands. They participate in numerous activities to explore food chains, food webs, and energy in the ecosystem. Students read stories, sing songs, visit specified websites, and participate in games to discover...
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How do pollutants bioaccumulate and biomagnify?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students review the basic concepts of the food chain. In small groups, they research an organism and create a food web. In addition, they study biomagnifications and write a brief essay or make a poster informing others about the...