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Evaluating the quality & relevance of online resources
1.Khan Academy: Food Chains & Food Webs This activity provides an overview of how food chains and food webs represent the flow of energy and matter. It allows users to visit prior lessons to see how food webs fit within the broader concept of ecosystems. |
2.TedEd: The Simple Story of Photosynthesis & Food
The lesson walks students through the process of photosynthesis and discusses the relationship between photosynthesis and carbohydrates, starch, and fiber - and how the air we breathe is related to the food we ingest. The lesson is customizable by instructors and includes an assessment, additional resources, and a discussion board. |
3.Antarctic Food Web
This interactive model shows how various food chains in an ecosystem are connected. Players must position the names of producers and consumers in the correct places on a diagram. The completed diagram reveals how energy flows through an Antarctic ecosystem and the relationships between predators and prey. |
4.Quizizz: Food Web
This assessment presents diagrams in which participants must analyze and respond to questioning. Teachers can use the Quizizz platform to formatively assess students' progress towards learning objectives. Teachers can modify quizzes to fit their instructional needs. Students can take quizzes competitively in real-time or the teacher can assign quizzes for homework. |
5.McGraw Hill: Model Ecosystems
This activity allows users to explore different ecosystems and how energy is transferred within each. Users can record field notes, audio, and take quizzes to assess their own learning. With its complex interface, this activity could serve as enrichment for advanced learners. |
6.Brain Pop: Food Fight
Students must use their knowledge of the food chain to manage resources and survive against a peer opponent. |
7.Cool Classroom: Food Web Game
This interactive game allows students to use trial and error while analyzing the energy transfer of an ocean ecosystem. The program scores students on their accuracy in choosing the appropriate trophic levels of different ocean life. Students can submit their name so that they can turn in results for teacher review. |
8.TedEd: Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient to Our Food Chain
With a similar structure to #2 in this list, this TedEd explores the "brown food chain," explaining how such unlikely delicacies as pond scum and animal feces contribute enormous amounts of energy to our ecosystems. |
9.Scholastic Study Jams: Food Webs
This interactive lesson reviews key vocabulary associated with food webs. A video provides an overview of producers, consumers, and decomposers. The participant can take a quiz for self-review or teacher submission. |
10.Sheppard Software: Producer, Consumer, Decomposers
This interactive game is simple and straightforward. It can provide remediation for students having difficulty identifying producers, consumers, and decomposers. |