Curated OER
The Big Mo
Students develop media literacy and critical thinking skills to analyze trends and determine the extent to which their decisions may be influenced by manipulation. They examine the mathematics of trends and write about a time they...
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics
Students work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line style....
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Who Is Eating Whom?
Students discuss the food chain and identify if various organisms are producers or consumers. They draw ten types of organisms and construct a food web of these organisms, labelling each as a producer or consumer.
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Producers and Consumers
Third graders identify the relationship between producers and consumers and supply and demand. They listen to a lecture and complete a variety of graphic organizers to show their understanding.
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Food Chains and Webs
Students identify the organisms found near their school or house and observe them. In this food chain lesson students examine how an organism gets their energy and then fill in a chart to create a food web with the organisms they...
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Strands Walk An Ecological Observation
Young scholars examine an ecosystem and analyze the role of two abiotic factors in the ecosystem. In this ecosystem lesson students complete an activity on their ecosystem.
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Biological Communities
Students identify consumers and producers in different communities. Students collect a variety of soil samples and record organisms found in the samples.
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Trophic Levels and Food Webs
In this biology instructional activity, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to trophic levels and food webs. There are 27 biology terms located in the word search.
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Y7 Variation and Habitats (S)
In this biology learning exercise, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms relating to variations and habitats of living things. There are 37 biology terms located in the word search.
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Web of Life - Alaska
Seventh graders research Alaska, then construct their own food web after researching a habitat of their choice.
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Statistics and Shopping
Students examine statistics and data analysis concepts from the practical questions that arise in everyday life.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: American Consumer Culture
Thia American Consumer Culture course features resources for teaching and learning from the early 1900's mass market through to the boom of internet shopping.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index
Extensive information about the Consumer Price Index. Constantly updated.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Hands on Shopping: Buy if You Can Give It a Try
In this behavioral science fair project, students will determine if handling merchandise affects interest in a product or its perceived value. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
Other
We the Savers: Young Savers
This resource introduces students to the world of money with this online tutorial. Each unit has its' own online quiz. Brave the desert, climb mountains and dodge alligators while you explore everything there is to know about earning,...
Other
Usa.gov: Consumer Guides and Protection
This page provides news and information to educate consumers. Covers a wide variety of topics of concern to consumers.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Coral Reef Food Web
Explore the food web in a coral reef with these illustration. Identify the consumers, producers, and decomposers that are located within this ecosystem. Site includes illustration exploring the different food chains as well as questions...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Consumers and Decomposers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Based upon the way organisms acquire their energy students will understand how to group them as consumers, decomposers or producers.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organism Relationships: Food Chains, Webs, Pyramids
Given illustrations, students will analyze the flow of matter and energy in food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Experiment With Ecosystems
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...