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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Producers make their own food through photosynthesis. But many organisms are not producers and cannot make their own food, but must get their energy from other...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 2: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers 2nd
In this instructional task, 2nd graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explain how a person can be both a producer and consumer.
Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: Coral Reef Food Web

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Producing and Consuming

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Lesson that helps learners understand the difference between producers and consumers. Students create booklets, making them producers, and then use the booklets to complete the lesson, making them consumers.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students 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. 4.Increase...
Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Indexes

For Students 9th - 10th
This page presents general information on the Producer Price Index, detailed statistics, tables and official publications, and more.
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Other

Association of Natural Bio Control Producers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is all about integrated pest management. Here you can learn about beneficial producers and consumers.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Goods and Services [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Experiment With Ecosystems

For Students 4th - 7th
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Consumer and Producer Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...
Handout
Utah Education Network

Uen: Biological Energy Food Chain Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
After reviewing the roles of consumers, producers and decomposers, you'll create your own food chains using pictures from magazines. The site also has 18 questions to see if you can identify the ecologic role played by various organisms.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers 3rd
Read and study the sources about the roles that different people have in the Louisiana economy. As you read the three sources, think about what would happen if some people gave up those roles.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Clipping Coupons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore this website to find out how and why consumers make choices on what products to buy. Learn how producers entice consumers into buying their products. This is a very informative lesson plan.
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Business Buddies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help characters Lisa and Drew learn simple economic principles by choosing what goods they will need for their lemonade stand. Continue exploring economic concepts by determining the producers, services, and consumers associated with the...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Energy Pyramid and Its Importance

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains the roles of consumers, producers, and detrivores or decomposers and how energy flows through the different levels of the energy pyramid of a tropical rainforest.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Consumerism

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.
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Other

Insightful Interaction: Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...

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