Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service
Show elementary students the correlation between goods and services and consumers. "You will draw a picture of a community helper, and perhaps write some sentences about him or her, to show or tell how that helper provides a Service."
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?
In this activity young scholars working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations....
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Tertiary Consumers
Explains what is meant by a tertiary consumer in a food chain and provides examples.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Difference Between Food Chain and Food Web
Explains the characteristics of food chains and food web; the different levels of producers, consumers, and decomposers; and the differences between food chains and food webs. Includes charts and a Venn diagram comparing the two.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: We Are Consumers and Producers
This lesson plan is geared toward beginning economics concepts. "In this lesson you are going to learn more about how you and others are consumers and producers."
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Competition
An interactive activity where students study how two species of producers are affected by a consumer. By completing several virtual experiments and collecting data, students will be able to summarize what plants can do to defend...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Costs and Benefits of 'The Three Little Pigs'
Find out what the definition of a cost and a benefit is in terms of the economy when using this site. "When making a decision, students should consider the costs and the benefits of that decision."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Predation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how predation affects population size and evolution.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be an Energy Saver
This lesson focuses on the scarce and non-renewable nature of fossil fuels in order to stimulate student thinking about energy conservation. It emphasizes the fact that saving energy can be good for the wallet as well as the earth's...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Advertising and Its Effects on Consumer Decision Making
This lesson will show the student the power of advertising to create demand for a product. After reviewing existing advertisements, the students will create their own campaign for a product. Following a presentation to the class as a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems Study Guide
Review the flow of energy through ecosystems with this study guide.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.17 Consumers and Decomposers
Learn the difference between consumers and decomposers in the ecosystem.
MadSci Network
What Is a Food Chain?
Discussion of what makes up a food chain and its significance. Includes some historical perspectives on developing the concept, and on how a pesticide called DDT affected food chains during the 1960's.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems
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.
PBS
Pbs: The Living Edens: The Food Chain
PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.
Other
Marginal Value, Marginal Utility, & Consumer Surplus
"Chapter 4: The Consumer: Marginal Value, Marginal Utility, and Consumer Surplus" by David D. Friedman discusses and analyzes the consumer who buys many goods.
Other
My Science Box: Food Chains
Students will use a card sorting activity to construct a food chain and identify the role of organisms within that chain. The cards represent different individuals in an ecosystem and will help students begin to understand the concepts...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 3
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 4
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."