A suite of lessons focusing on the process of upwelling. Inquiry-based exploration of seasonal upwelling includes marine food webs, food production in the ocean, wind-driven ocean currents, and seasonal changes in biotic and abiotic...

For this lesson, students will choose an organism of their choice and research its life cycle, food chain, diet, and habitat, then predict how habitat change might affect the organisms living within it.

Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the marine food chain.

[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.

A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on food chains that explains how energy flows through the chain, beginning with plants.

Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.

Use this TED Ed lesson, complete with video, questions, and links to resources for deeper understanding, to introduce the food chain.

[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...

In this lesson, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of a Character...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how autotrophs and heterotrophs obtain energy.

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."

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."

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."

Have a look at a simple food chain and others that are more complex. Then construct a series of food chains by playing a drag-and-drop game.

Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.

Understand how the food chain works within ecosystems.

Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.

Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.

This illustrated guide to food chains and ecological pyramids will help clarify how energy flows through an ecosystem.

Answer these ten interactive questions about ecological feeding relationships by choosing the correct image that completes each food chain.

Students begin this lesson by making observations and recording evidence of the variety of living things in local nature site. Students use reference materials to research predators and food of the animals they observed, then illustrate...

Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 5-PS3-1: food energy from the sun.

Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.