Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Nhmu: Living Food Web

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will be able to name some plants and animals that live in Utah's desert, forest or wetland ecosystems.
Handout
Other

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: Fitting Algae Into the Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that helps students understand food chains and food webs. With the background information, interactive activity, and extensions, students will see the interconnectedness and interdependence of organisms. Activity has students...
Interactive
Other

Zephyrus: Food Puzzle Chain

For Students 3rd - 5th
Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Food Chains and Food Webs: Food Webs

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Energy must constantly flow through an ecosystem for the system to remain stable. What exactly does this mean? Essentially, it means that organisms must eat other...
Lesson Plan
The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 5 Ps3 1: Food Energy From the Sun

For Teachers 5th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 5-PS3-1: food energy from the sun.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
Unit Plan
NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Estuary Food Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about the feeding relationships in an estuary ecosystem with this interactive energy pyramid activity. A second activity involves research and a video clip to elaborate the learning.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Food Chains and Food Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains and webs represent feeding relationships.
Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What Animals Eat

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] To show the dependence of animals on the plant world, these flipchart pages contain examples of food chains and food webs, as well as other information about animals and habitats.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Difference Between Food Chain and Food Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Webs

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food webs that explains the difference between food webs and food chains, and the relationships that exist between organisms.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.18 Food Chain

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain

For Students 4th - 7th
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Marine Food Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the marine food chain.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining important vocabulary involving the food chain. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Food Webs: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how to create a food web to show transfer of energy within a community. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Food Webs."
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.
Handout
MadSci Network

What Is a Food Chain?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Food Chains and Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
A very informative site that discusses food chains and webs in detail. Not too complicated and fairly easy to understand, it also includes some pictures.

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