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 video, students learn that limiting factors control the growth of a population in a certain population. Those factors can be living like predators, or non-living, like sunlight and rain. If these factors change, it can have a big effect on plant and animal populations. Inferences can be made about the relationships between plants and animals.

This lesson makes use of the book called A Seabird in the Forest: The Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet, written by Joan Dunning. The lesson also has a role-playing kinetic component "” kids move as birds between two habitats you make and re-enact the life-cycle stages the book emphasizes.

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.

This informational text explores the relationships between various tundra species: marsh marigolds, bot flies, and caribou. The text is at a reading level appropriate for fourth through fifth grade. It is a full-color pdf file that can be printed, cut, and folded to form a 2 1/8" by 2 3/4" book. It contains color photographs and illustrations.

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 will learn about the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem, pollution in our oceans, as well as simulating an “ocean” cleanup by cleaning up recess area of trash. They will also learn about the top 10 plastic waste producing countries. Students will interpret that data to create a bar or line graph and answer questions based on the information. Students will also be learning about and building their own AI on code.org.

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

Students construct a food web to learn how all living things in an ecosystem are interconnected and energy for life comes from the sun.

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.

After reading their Wonders anchor text, “Winter’s Tail”, students will be asked to create their own jamboard poster of how Winter impacted the trainers and others who helped with her recovery. Using expository writing techniques and learned vocabulary from the anchor text, students will articulate Winter impacted humans. Students should be able to talk about the positives of the human impact (such as how the Clearwater Marine Aquarium used technology to save Winter’s life). Students should be encouraged to use evidence from the text, images, and anything else to show how an animal can impact a human.

In this lesson, students will study how living models can help them to understand and relate to the real environment. As a class, students will create a model of an aquatic habitat and be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the tank.

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.