Ecology

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The University of Illinois has created six separate teacher guides for teaching about the environment.

What about the oceans food web? In this lesson plan, students will identify the producers and consumers in an ecosystem, make a model of a food web, and explain how changes in the population of one organism can affect the entire food web.

Don't forget about the Yellowstone National Park food web! In this lesson plan students will investigate the interdependence of wildlife in the Yellowstone ecosystem.