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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.
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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.
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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.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how energy is transferred through the food chain.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this unit learners explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the health...
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Other

Marietta College: Environmental Biology Sequence: Food Chains and Webs

For Students 9th - 10th
View examples and learn how animals impact the food chain.
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Other

Marietta College: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.
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Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Food Chain

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Another Link in the Food Chain

For Students 3rd - 8th
Understand how the food chain works within ecosystems.
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FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: Energy Pyramid and Food Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated guide to food chains and ecological pyramids will help clarify how energy flows through an ecosystem.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Food Chains Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on food chain vocabulary before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for the correct answers throughout the assessment.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant

For Teachers 4th - 7th
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...
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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.
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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.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Food Chain and Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
Kids learn about the food chain and food web. How energy cycles and transfers through living organisms.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Food Chains

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how food chains represent feeding relationships.
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Defenders of Wildlife

Kids' Planet: The Web of Life

For Students 3rd - 7th
The Web of Life is a story told by a common garden spider at this site from Kids' Planet. Learn about the food web, and the roles and relationships of every living creature.
Handout
Museum of Science

Museum of Science: The Living Sea: Predators and Prey

For Students 6th - 8th
This Museum of Science page does an excellent job of explaining the importance of plants as producers in the sea. The food chain or food web has to start with the plants.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 3 Web of Life

For Teachers 4th
Understand environments and how organisms adapt to their environment.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how to identify trophic levels in a food chain or food web.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will review the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs."
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PBS

Pbs: Nature: The Fascinating World of Jellies

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the mysterious jellyfish blooms that have occurred in the world's oceans. Because the resulting alteration to the marine food web has had devastating effects, researchers grow and study jellyfish at the Monterey aquarium....

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