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River Venture

For Students 7th - 9th
For this food web worksheet, students color 4 animals and put them in the correct spot on a food web. They answer 3 related short answer questions. 
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Vocabulary: Kansas Prairies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the ecosystem by reviewing scientific vocabulary terms. In this environmental awareness lesson, students identify the differences between abiotic and biotic factors and their relationship to the Earth. Students define...
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Who Eats Whom in the Open Ocean?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine how organisms interact with one another in the ocean. In this science lesson, students discuss predators and prey in the ocean. Students discuss food webs and how organisms interact with each other.
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Who Is Eating Whom?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils discuss the food chain and identify if various organisms are producers or consumers. They draw ten types of organisms and construct a food web of these organisms, labelling each as a producer or consumer.
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Plants 'R' Us!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the interdependencies of plants and animals, and study what a food web is. They create a food web using yarn and images.
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Circle of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students consider why we eat and where our food obtains its energy. They illustrate food chains that might be found on an open field, dissect owl pellets, identify the remains of animals in the pellets, watch videos and participate in...
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Nutrition and Energy Flow

For Students 4th - 8th
In this energy flow worksheet, students will complete 10 short answer questions based on a food web diagram. Then students will review different cycles in nature including the water cycle, carbon cycle, and energy cycle. This worksheet...
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Charting Mold Growth

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students chart mold growth based on food supply. In this mold growth lesson plan, students chart micro-organism growth and the decline of the growth as food runs out.
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Chewin' in the Chesapeake

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine a web page on food webs and select a habitat to research.  In this research lesson students identify the organisms found in the food web and present their findings to the class.
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Testing for Life

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students discuss food and the food groups and their organic nature. They test 3 different solutions and test for protein, starch and glucose. In addition, they create a master table on the board to collect all the teams results.
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Recyclers to the Rescue

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the concept of the food chain and define producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. They draw a food chain for a mouse and discuss the different organisms involved in the chain, and conduct an...
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Aquatic Foodweb

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore what a food web is. In this science lesson, students examine how nutrients and other pollutants enter a lake and play a food web game whereby learners pretend they are either zooplankton, planktivore,...
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How do pollutants bioaccumulate and biomagnify?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars review the basic concepts of the food chain. In small groups, they research an organism and create a food web. In addition, they study biomagnifications and write a brief essay or make a poster informing others about the...
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Hide and Seek Science

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine macro-invertebrates in order to better understand their link to the food web. Working in groups, they record observations of several areas of a stream or river, collect samples from the river bottom, and identify the...
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The Biosphere

For Students 7th - 9th
In this biosphere worksheet, learners identify the different levels of organization that ecologists study. Students complete charts, sentences, and answer short answer questions.
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Peanut Butter Broccoli

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore food production by viewing DNA presentations. For this genetic engineering lesson, 5th graders discuss the foods they typically eat at home and how many common foods are engineered in a way that can produce a bigger...
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Habitat survival

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study different environments and how the food chain affects the survival of different animals. In this environments lesson plan, 6th graders share the visuals which describe the characteristics of the environment that they...
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A Feast for the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in an activity that uses a simulated meal of transgenic foods in order to initiate a discussion of the controversy concerning the use of transgenic food products.
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Service Learning Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students plan a service project to contribute to their community and then reflect on their experience. In this service project activity, students help in a food pantry or donation center in their community. Students then write statements...
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Ecology and the St. Lawrence River

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders complete a unit of lessons on ecosystems, organism interactions, and energy flow. They create a key for known species of fish, diagram the movement of energy through an ecosystem, and create and present food chains and food...
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Bugs in the Woods

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify insects and plants in the forest ecosystem in a structured field trip with stations and activity booklets.  In this bugs lesson, 2nd graders explore the ecosystem of the forest, complete the booklet and play...
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How Hot is Too Hot?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the scientific method to conduct experiments on the temperature effects on organisms. In this temperature effects on organisms lesson plan, 5th graders observe and record the hatching or the developing of organisms into...
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Ecosystems: Give and Take

For Students 5th - 8th
In this river ecosystem worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by writing in what the various organisms lists contribute and benefit in this river ecosystem.
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Cause And Effects Of Pollutants In Ecosystems

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders define what an ecosystem is, what its make up is and how pollution effects it.  For this air pollution lesson students identify the cause and effects of pollution on an ecosystem and trace a food chain. 

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