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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Food and Nutrition Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a wide array of nutritional information. Included are articles on food and food groups, the connection between health and food, and healthy eating choices.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Food Chains and Food Webs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity, supported by the provided power point lecture (LESSON 1 and 2 Ecology Lecture Supplement ), introduces students to the concepts of food chains and food webs. Through its use, students learn the difference...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organisms and Environments: Organisms Interactions

For Students 7th - 9th
Learn about food webs, food chains, and organisms interactions in this interactive tutorial.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization of an Ecosystem Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization in Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on food chains in ecosystems, including levels of consumers, decomposers, and a list of common words used with food chains and their definitions. It also provides a link to an assessment.
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Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
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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.
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Native American Art and Technology

Native Tech: Native American Food & Recipes

For Students 9th - 10th
NativeTech provides many different recipes from around the North American continent. Each one is submitted by someone of Native American heritage, with a notation about the origins of the recipe. Organized by food groups.
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Other

Moms Team: Choosing Low Fat Items at Fast Food Restaurants

For Students 9th - 10th
Find fast-food choices from all major food groups in this chart. Foods are organized into the following categories: "Lower Fat Choices," "Moderate Fat Choices," and "High Fat Choices."
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Other

Food for the Poor

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit organization that "provides food, housing, healthcare, education, water projects, mirco-enterprise development assistance and emergency relief to the poorest of the poor".
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Great Salt Lake Food Web

For Students 6th - 8th
Visualize how energy transfer takes place in two linked food chains, and how it demonstrates the interdependence organisms of the Great Salt Lake.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Ecosystems:determining Feeding Relationships Among Organisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will complete a field study about feeding relationships between organisms and present their findings in a food web as well as in a written narrative.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Antarctic Food Web Challenge

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover how energy flows as part of a food web. Identify the ultimate source of energy for organisms on Earth.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Life in Extreme Environments: Who Is on Top in the Food Chain?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will design experiments to gain some understanding of the feeding rates of Rotifers and/or Tardigrades. They will use organisms collected locally or provided by the teacher to explore differences between their...
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Other

The Dirty Dozen Persistent Organic Pollutants

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about the effects of persistent organic pollutants on the ecology of Antarctic coastal waters. Information is presented for both teacher and student researcher.
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PBS

Frontline and Nova: Harvest of Fear

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the risks, benefits, hopes, and fears associated with biotechnology and bioengineered food crops. Find in-depth interviews with genetic scientists, food industry representatives, farmers, and critics of biotechnology. Accompanying...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Dive Into Worlds Within the Sea

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about three different marine ecosystems: coral reefs, the continental shelf, and the deep sea. Interactive game included, which will help players chart the interrelationships among organisms that live in each ecosystem.
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Other

The Family Farmer

For Students 3rd - 9th
The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of farm families, and serves as a window into the small-scale food production process that modern day consumers have become estranged from.
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WebMD

Web Md: Apples Again Top 'Dirty Dozen' List for Pesticides

For Students 9th - 10th
Which foods are best when grown organic, and which ones are just as healthy for you when conventionally produced? This article lists types of fruits and vegetables from each category and explains why pesticide in food is an important...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 2

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Role of Plants in the Food Chain: Lesson 3

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson explains the role plants play in the conversion of inorganic materials into organic material to support living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "The Role of Plants in the Food Chain."
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Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
The FAO leads international efforts to defeat hunger. They help developing countries to improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Human Organism: Adolescent Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Nutritional problems, junk food, portion sizes, importance of reading food labels are but a few of the topics discussed on this ready made slide presentation.
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Other

My Science Box: Food Chains

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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...

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