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Subtopic: Producers and Consumers

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Analyzing an Ecosystem  

Analyzing an Ecosystem
In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Alberta, identify the living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. Then look further at the living things to identify the producers, the consumers, and examples of mimicry.

3-8 Flash Interactive
Animal Classification Game  

Animal Classification Game
Learn about classes of animals and test your ability to identify animals as mammals, birds, reptiles and more in this interactive activity adapted from Sheppard Software.

4-8 Flash Interactive
Antarctic Food Web Game  

Antarctic Food Web Game
In this interactive game adapted from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, build a food web that illustrates the flow of energy in an Antarctic ecosystem and the relationships between predators and prey.

5-8 Flash Interactive
Bats of the Southwest  

Bats of the Southwest
This video segment from the Nevada Department of Wildlife looks at various species of bats and how they impact the environment.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Biodiversity in the Dzangha-Sangha Rain Forest  

Biodiversity in the Dzangha-Sangha Rain Forest
In this interactive activity from the American Museum of Natural History, play "connect the dots" and discover the connections between the people, animals, and plants in three habitats of the Dzanga-Sangha rain forest in the Central African Republic.

5-8 Flash Interactive
The Bounty of Bees  

The Bounty of Bees
Bees are an extremely vital part of life on this planet. In this video segment from QUEST, explore the huge impact these small insects have on our civilization.

6-8 QuickTime Video
Carnivorous Plants  

Carnivorous Plants
In this video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, learn about carnivorous plants that act as both producers and consumers in an ecosystem. See sundews and blatterworts capture and digest insects.

K-12 QuickTime Video
Carnivorous Plants of Cartwheel Bay  

Carnivorous Plants of Cartwheel Bay
In this video segment from NatureScene, explore Cartwheel Bay, a wetland in South Carolina, and learn about the variety of carnivorous plants native to this unique landform.

3-8 QuickTime Video
Contaminants in the Arctic Food Chain  

Contaminants in the Arctic Food Chain
The levels of contaminants found in particular animals vary widely depending on where they fit into the Arctic food chain, as described in this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.

5-12 QuickTime Video
Creepy Crawlies  

Creepy Crawlies
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Odyssey of Life" Web site explores the often unwitting relationship we share with the billions of organisms that reside in our bodies and in our homes.

K-8 HTML Interactive
Decomposers  

Decomposers
Without the work of decomposers, living organisms would eventually use up all the raw materials in the environment, and dead organisms and wastes would pile up. This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Earth" describes the role of decomposers as the Earth's great recyclers.

K-5 QuickTime Video
Energy Flow  

Energy Flow
This feature, adapted from Interactive NOVA: "Earth," follows the path of energy as it is transferred via the food chain from one type of organism to another.

K-5 Flash Interactive
Energy Flow in the Coral Reef Ecosystem  

Energy Flow in the Coral Reef Ecosystem
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, describes the energy flow in a coral reef, including its food web.

3-12 QuickTime Video
How Do Plants Get Energy?  

How Do Plants Get Energy?
Students investigate the process of photosynthesis.

3-5 Lesson Plan
Illuminating Photosynthesis  

Illuminating Photosynthesis
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Methuselah Tree" Web site details the process of photosynthesis and its role in the oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle.

3-12 Flash Interactive
Indiana Bats of Carter Cave  

Indiana Bats of Carter Cave
This video segment from Kentucky Life explores one of the endangered habitats of Indiana bats and describes the benefits of bats to humans.

K-12 QuickTime Video
Life Before Oxygen  

Life Before Oxygen
This Interactive NOVA: "Earth" video segment looks at ancient organisms that lived anaerobically, the origins of photosynthesis, and the new forms of life this process made possible.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Living Life as a Plant  

Living Life as a Plant
In this media-rich lesson, students investigate how plants respond to their environment. They also explore adaptations, such as how some plants are adapted to life in the desert and why some plants trap and digest insects.

3-5 Lesson Plan
Nowhere to Hide  

Nowhere to Hide
Notice how the birds select orange or green bugs as you alter the levels of local pollution in this interactive activity from Kinetic City.

K-8 Flash Interactive
Primitive Insects of the Congaree Swamp  

Primitive Insects of the Congaree Swamp
In this video segment from NatureScene, observe dragonflies and mayflies near Cedar Creek at Congaree Swamp National Park.

3-8 QuickTime Video
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers  

Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Students learn how energy flow ties together the organisms in an ecosystem.

3-5 Lesson Plan
Supermarket Botany  

Supermarket Botany
Can you eat the stem, root, or seed of a plant? In this interactive activity adapted from the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, test your knowledge of plant parts by identifying everyday foods as plant parts.

2-5 Flash Interactive