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If you need a few basic activities for teaching food chains to your emerging ecologists, here they are. Three sheets of organism cards are included for learners to cut out and arrange according to trophic relationships. To make the most of this resource, you will want to find the student sheets provided on the National Science Teachers Association website; although there is enough material for a solid lesson here without doing so. 

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energy transfer, energy, ecosystems, food chains, food webs, trophic levels

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ecosystems, energy transfer, food chain, food web, trophic level, science
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Grade
5th - 9th
Subjects
Science
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Lesson Plans
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Duration
1 hr

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