BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Facts About Autotrophs and Heterotrophs
Explains what autotrophs and heterotrophs are, the several types of each, their roles in an ecosystem's food chains, and the differences between them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Interactions Everywhere!
This lesson introduces students to the concept of an environment and the interactions within it through written and hands-on webbing activities. The lesson also introduces students to environmental engineering careers and their roles in...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Botany: Pollination
Scientific article detailing what pollination is, types of pollination, animals (mainly insects) that facilitate pollination, ways pollination can take place, its evolution, pollination in agriculture, and threats to pollination....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?
Students conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags filled with...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Ecology
Students review the study of living things and make connections back to Earth's systems. This unit focuses on how various species, grouped in populations and communities, work with the nonliving things around them to ensure survival.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 3 Ls3 2: Environmental Influence on Traits
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 3-LS3-2: environmental influence on traits.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Our Big Backyard: How Does Our Local Ecosystem Change During the Year?
Get students observing the environment around their school with this activity. In this lab experiment, students keep a journal containing written observations and digital pictures of how local flora and fauna change during the school year.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environmental Interactions
In this activity, students create a "web" to identify and demonstrate the interactions among the living and non-living parts of an environment. This information allows students to better understand what an environment is and to also...
Other
Hub Pages: Abiotic Factors: A Component of Ecosystem
In the environment, there are external factors that really affect organisms living within it. One of these factors is the set of abiotic factors, or nonliving variables, such as wind, ocean, day length, rainfall, temperature, and ocean...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Abiotic Factors of the Rainforest
Abiotic factors, e.g., sunlight and precipitation, play a huge role in supporting biodiversity in a rainforest. This article discusses the features of rainforests and how abiotic factors affect the plants and animals that live there.
Other
Hub Pages: Biotic Factors of Ecosystem: Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
An ecosystem is composed of biotic factors of a community of living organisms interacting with one another which we can see in food chains/webs. These diverse organisms stay together because of the need of food. Population is referred to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Matter in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will learn about the cycles of nature (water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) that support the flow of nutrient matter through an...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Habitat Alterations of a Riparia
This field trip is designed to physically immerse students in the concept of habitat alteration focusing on biotic and abiotic habitat alterations.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of ecosystems, covering biotic and abiotic factors, and the roles organisms play in an ecosystem.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Ecology?
A webpage giving an overview of ecology. Learn about the biotic and abiotic factors that make up an ecosystem as well as the different levels of ecology.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Ecosystem: Lesson 1
This lesson will introduce the properties of ecosystems. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Ecosystem."
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: The Concept of the Ecosystem
Lesson looks at the definition of an ecosystem, biogeochemical cycles, and factors responsible for the differences between ecosystems.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Biodiversity Quiz (Ecological Problems)
Take an interactive quiz over ecological problems affecting the environment. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hunting Bears With a Microscope
In this study, students will use lichens and tardigrades (water bears) to investigate their use as bioindicators of key air pollutants.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Living Fences
Find out what living fences are, and how they increase diversity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to ecosystems and other ecological concepts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to ecosystems and other ecological concepts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to ecosystems and other ecological concepts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.10 Ecosystems
See how living and nonliving things exist together in an ecosystem.
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