Life Systems: Habitats and Communities

• Food Chains and Food Webs
  http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/education/resources/curriculum/foodchains/
  • 92 pg. pdf file - printable
    Lesson plans, food chain games, printable worksheets, and task cards.
    
    
• Chain Reaction
  http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html
  Build a food chain: Northern food chain or Forest food chain
  
  
• The food chain
  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain.htm
  • Parts of a food chain
  • Photosynthesis
    
    
• Hams Hall Pond
  http://www.tgfl.org.uk/tgfl/custom/resources_ftp/netmedia_ll/ks1/science/hamshall/index.htm
  • Food Chains- three online drag and drop activities
  • Virtual Pond
  • Life Cycle
  • Pond Library
    
    
• Geography4kids
  http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html
  Food chains explained.
  
  
• Who eats what?
  http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/WhoEatsWhat/WhoEatsWhat.htm
  Fact with photos of who eats what.
  
  
• Food Webs
  http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm
  4 interactive food web games to drag and drop the organisms to for the food web.
  
  
• eThemes
  http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000328.shtml
  a list of food chain links.
  
  
• WWF
  http://www.panda.org/index.cfm
  • Habitats
  • Top 10 Secies and Places
  • Wild Places
  • Remarkable Animals
  • Terrestrial Ecoregions
    
    
• IUCN - International Union for Conservation
  http://cms.iucn.org/index.cfm
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Speices
    
    
• Biomes Web Sites
  
  
• Pond Explorer
  http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pondexplorer.html
  On-line pond dip with lesson plans and other links. Graphics and descriptions of pond animals.
  • Printable activity booklets
  • Virtual Pond Dip
  • Teacher Notes with excellent links
    
    
• Exploring Pond Habitats
  http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pond-cross.html
  Click the graphic to investigate the areas of the pond then click on the words on the right hand side to see drawings and read about the pond animals.
  • Identification key of pond animals
  • Research Skills Activity Sheet
    
    
• Pond Life Identification Kit
  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/index.html
  A guide to small and microscopic pond life.
  • A Virtual Pond Dip

   

   

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  Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
  Monday January 12, 2009 11:31 PM