Construct a flow chart that demonstrates how plants, animals, and the environment interact to provide basic life requirements 0207.2.3

Links verified 12/31/2014

1. The Antarctic Food Chain - print pictures and use those to create a food chain. Links available for needed pictures.
2. Experiment with a Pond Food Web - change various population sizes to see what affect the change has
3. Food Chains - an interactive site from the BBC
4. Food Chain - National Geographic for Kids has a featured Quick Flick from Brain Pop on the subject.
5. Food Chains and Webs - Basic information regarding food webs is presented here. After learning about food webs, select the link named "create a possible food web" at the bottom of the page. Click and drag to create your own food web. or
6. Graphic Organizers (for Flow Charts and others)
   1. Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. (sample included
   2. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
   3. Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
   4. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
   5. Graphic Organizer Links - links to a large number of graphic organizers provided by Vermilion Parish School Board in Abbeville, LA - Second page of links from the same school system
   6. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
   7. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
   8. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
   9. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
   10. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
   11. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
   12. Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
   13. Teaching Tips: Graphic Organizers - A list of links from eMINTS and The Curators of the University of Missouri
   14. Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps - Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
   15. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn
   16. Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
7. Habitats - investigate food chains with this interactive site from the BBC
8. Working on the Food Chain - an animated overview

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