Design a graphic organizer that illustrates the difference between plants and animals in the movement of food energy through an ecosystem 0507.3.2

Links verified 9/18/2014

1. Forest Food Webs - lesson plan from Discovery Education
2. Fun with Food Webs - three webs are available; arctic, meadow, and pond - click and drag elements into place
3. Graphic Organizers
   • Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   • Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
   • 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
   • Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
   • 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
   • Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
   • Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning [Caution: Some of the organizers are only available to Enchanted Learning members]
   • Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
   • 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.
   • Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
   • Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
   • 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. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   • 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.
   • Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   • 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
4. Habitats - investigate food chains with this interactive site from the BBC
5. Interdependence and Adaptation - Use this BBC interactive site to review living things, then take a quiz about interdependence and the food web
6. Interesting Facts About Food Chains - a brief description of the food chains and food webs in an ecosystem [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]
7. Make a Possible Food Web - [works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Netscape Navigator] interactive, click and drag to make your own food chain also
8. Make Your Own Food Web - an interactive food web from Scholastic also
9. Predator/Prey Relationship - an interactive investigation from McGraw Hill [Slow to load on 9/18/2014]
10. Welcome to Biology 2002 - This college level PowerPoint show has some great images. Save the show, throw out the college content and modify the show for your classroom. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
11. Working on the Food Chain - interactive site

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