Animals: Food Chains and Webs
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| Animals: Food Chains and Webs |
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Description:
| These Websites are about food chains and food webs. Includes examples of webs and chains with animals from various biomes. Learn about consumers, producers, prey, predators, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. There is a short animated movie, online games, quizzes, and suggested classroom activities. Included is an eThemes resource on producers, consumers, and decomposers that has additional, related sites and activities. |
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Grade Level:
| 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Kidport Food Chain
Here are simplified examples of food chains on land and in the sea constructed with animal photographs.
Who Eats What
Find out what various animals eat. Includes interesting facts about the food chain and is full of colorful photos.
Food Chain Quiz
Students can take this short interactive quiz to test their basic knowledge of food chains.
PBS: Feed Me
This site uses a cheetah and zebra to explain the roles of a predator and its prey in a food chain.
Food Chains and Webs
This site shows a food pyramid and explains food chains and webs through an online game.
Ecokids: Chain Reaction
This interactive tutorial teaches about food chains and what happens if one part of the chain is gone.
Introduction to Biomes
Click on the "Food Web" links under each biome to see a diagram and explanation of the food chains that exist in that habitat. Included are deserts, forests, tundra, and more.
Interesting Facts about Food Chains
This site discusses vocabulary related to food webs and chains. Includes two diagrams of a food web and a food chain. NOTE: Reading level is for older students. NOTE: This site links to a site with a guestbook.
Identify the Food Chains
Print this handout and students can answer questions about the producers and consumers in the web.
ABC: Food Chain Research Page
This printable worksheet challenges students to research an animal from the rainforest and then draw its food chain.
BrainPOP! The Food Chain
Watch a movie with Tim and Moby about Food Chains, then take a pop quiz. There are also comics, an activity, and an experiment. NOTE: This site is available by subscription only.
BBC: Feeding Relationships
Click on the links below to read about the different feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. When you are finished, you can take an interactive quiz to test what you have learned.
BBC: The Biosphere
Review your knowledge of food chains and webs, biomass, and populations with the information on this site for older students. Includes a glossary and sample quiz.
BBC: Web of Life
Students can explore the ecological webs that exist in a coral reef environment with this interactive game. Select from the drop-down menus to learn more about the organisms that live there and other facts.
Food Chains and Webs Activity
This is an activity designed to help younger students visualize the concepts of food webs and energy flow.
Create a Food Chain
Younger students can learn about and visualize the concept of a food chain through this hands-on activity.
Food Chains and Food Webs Actitivity
What happens when one organism eats another? Students can learn about how energy is transfered through a food chain in this hands-on game activity.
Effects of Pesticides on a Food Chain
What happens to a food chain when one member is removed? These lesson activities let students explore how pesticides can enter a food chain and what happens to the other links when they do.
Build Your Own Food Web
Choose one of four habitats, then sort the organisms into their proper level of the food web in this interactive game. When you have finished building your food web, click to see a completed version that you can print.
eThemes Resource: Organisms: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
What is a producer, consumer, and decomposer? These are sites about these different kinds of organisms and how they interrelate to one another in food chains and food webs. There are experiments, games, other interactive features, and suggested classroom activities.
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Education Standards:
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ME Standards:
A.2, B.1, B.2, B.3, C.2, B.1, B.2, A.3, B.4
MO Standards:
1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.7, 1, 3, 4, 3, 4
NV Standards:
L.2.C.1, L.2.C.2, L.2.D.1, L.5.C.1, L.5.C.2, L.5.C.5, L.5.D.1, L.8.A.4, L.8.C.1, L.8.C.3, L.8.C.4
UT Standards:
V.2.c, V.3.a, V.4.a, V.4.b
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