Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.

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.

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.

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."

Describe the habitat, food web and ecosystem of shark species. Identify threats to sharks and explore how top predators help to maintain the balance of nature within ecosystems. This lesson plan also contains an interactive game.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Based upon the way organisms acquire their energy students will understand how to group them as consumers, decomposers or producers.

Lesson plan to construct and explain a food chain. Includes games and activities to teach and reinforce concepts.

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.

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.

Kids learn about the food chain and food web. How energy cycles and transfers through living organisms.

PBS site provides some basic information on the food chain.

This animation discusses the food chain in a storybook format. The chain is described as a cycle and both herbivores and carnivores are discussed.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various food chains.

In 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.

Students will use a card sorting activity to construct a food chain and identify the role of organisms within that chain. The cards represent different individuals in an ecosystem and will help students begin to understand the concepts...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to identify and manipulate food chains.

In this ecosystem consisting of hawks, snakes, rabbits and grass, the population of each species can be studied as part of a food chain. Disease can be introduced for any species, and the number of animals can be increased or decreased...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great introduction to ways animals get food, characteristics of animals, habitats around the world. It contains pictures that will help students understand life cycles and where to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this flipchart students will be able to summarize and organize simple food chains.