This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Science.

In this activity, students are given roles in a skit designed to illustrate how a salt marsh works and how the organisms in it interact with each other.

In this video, students learn each ecosystem is made up of living and non-living things that interact and depend on each other for life. Students learn about producers, consumers and decomposers.

In this video, students learn that a food chain is made up of three groups producers, consumers, and decomposers who interact with each other in an ecosystem to get the energy they need.

In this video, students learn that food webs show all the relationships between all of the plants and animals in a community. How different food chains interact with one another and overlap is also explored.

In this activity, students will learn the parts of algae, compare them to land plants, and rotate through exploration stations to investigate seaweed close up with their different senses.

In this kinesthetic activity, students model the transfer of energy in a food web.

In this lesson, students demonstrate energy transfer and connections between plants and animals.

Students explore a local water ecosystem and discover organisms living in various habitats. Many of these organisms provide food and cover for fish. Each student collects aquatic invertebrates using dip nets and sorts through muck scooped from the lake or creek bottom.

In this lesson, students construct food webs to learn how food chains are interconnected.

This discussion guide is to be used in conjunction with the 4-part Wetlands Ecology video series (http://intotheoutdoors.org/topics/wetlands-wisdom/#available-videos).

In this lesson, students complete a series of activities to better understand the interdependence of organisms within a wetland ecosystem and how energy flows through an ecosystem.

In this activity, students create a food web and explore food choices for different organisms.

This encyclopedia entry is for the term "food chain." A food chain describes who eats whom in the wild. Text for this entry is appropriate for the upper elementary, middle and high school grade levels.

This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "herbivore." An herbivore is an organism that mostly feeds on plants. Text for this entry is appropriate for the upper elementary, middle, and high school grade levels.

This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "omnivore." An omnivore is an organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi. Text for this entry is appropriate for upper elementary, middle, and high school grade levels.