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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.
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Other

Insightful Interaction: Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: u.s. Economy at a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
The seven major economic indicators for the U.S. economy are listed here in an easy to read chart. The seven indicators are unemployment rate, change in hourly employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer price...
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Channel 4 Learning

Channel 4 Learning: Science Essentials: Habitats

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find answers to your questions about habitats, producers, consumers, and food chains. Glossary, image bank, suggested activities, and quiz included.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
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Other

Pde Sas: Relationships Among Organisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students compare various types of relationships among organisms (i.e., biotic interactions). Students will: explain the roles of producers and consumers, and predators and prey in an ecosystem. Explain the levels of order...
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iCivics

I Civics: The Market Economy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson teaches the basics about the market economy, including the relationships between consumers and producers, supply and demand, and profit and incentive. Students learn six traits of a market economy, compare the market economy...
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Biodiversity in an Estuary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to the amazing biodiversity of an estuarine environment, focusing on the habitats in the Rookery Bay National EstuarineResearch Reserve, Florida. They begin by exploring the estuary using Google Maps....
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Economic Review Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This activity reviews goods, services, producers, and consumers. The lesson consist of sorting, fill in the blank, writing, and racing car review quiz.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners 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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Nhmu: Living Food Web

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will be able to name some plants and animals that live in Utah's desert, forest or wetland ecosystems.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Everyone Works

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand the economic concepts of goods and services. Students categorize economic activities as goods or services, and discuss the goods and services exchanged in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Jaffe...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain

For Students 4th - 7th
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
Activity
University of Nebraska Omaha

Ecedweb: Explorations in Economic Supply, Part I

For Students 9th - 10th
Examines how supply relates to economic decision making. Using the example of purchasing blue jeans, students take the role of producer to determine how many blue jeans they would supply to the market. Includes links and discussion...
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ecedweb: Explorations in Supply, Part Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
In this economics tutorial, you as a producer have to determine how much of a given product you should make.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Biological Energy Food Chain Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
After reviewing the roles of consumers, producers and decomposers, you'll create your own food chains using pictures from magazines. The site also has 18 questions to see if you can identify the ecologic role played by various organisms.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Demand, Supply, and Efficiency

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to contrast consumer surplus, producer surplus, and social surplus; explain why price floors and price ceilings can be inefficient; and analyze demand and supply as a social adjustment mechanism.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Effect of Government Interventions on Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about the impact of price controls and quotas on consumer surplus, producer surplus, total surplus, and dead-weight loss in this four-question exercise.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: International Trade and Public Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about the impact of trade, tariffs, and quotas on consumer and producer surplus in this exercise.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Discovering What Plants Need for Photosynthesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity will be used prior to any direct instruction for photosynthesis. In this inquiry lab, students design and conduct simple experiments using elodea and Bromthymol blue to determine whether plants consume or release carbon...
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Other

Trinity P3: What Are the Biggest Issues and Challenges Facing Media Today?

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists some of the many major changes that the media industry is going through, at all levels and in all roles from producer to marketer to consumer. The results of an industry survey are described and a detailed summary is provided...

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