Teacher/Mentor Resources for Pond Food Webs

"Ask" reference collection. Links to lots of excellent aquatic food web and food chain resources from games and simulations to research and other related topics.

A .pdf downloadable pond web game that can be easily adapted to older kids and adults. Aldine School District.

Discover a pond food web (with a dipnet). From TeacherVision.

Wikipedia's food web explanation. Good current info for adults and HS kids. Links to advanced resources and connected topics.

Pond life animal printouts from Enchanted Learning. Great for kids to make their own food web illustrations.

A Virtual pond dip from Micscape Magazine (UK). Be sure to check out their pondlife ID kit (small and microscopic) and sublinks

Aquatic Critters. A simple on-line introduction to some of our most common pond organisms. Be sure to explore their, "Freshwater Ecosystems Home" area. Missouri Botanical Garden

Pond Pack. A downloadable .pdf publication from the Holland Park Ecology Centre (Kensington, UK). Nice simple arrangement for a pondside exploration unit.

Citybugs food web Teacher's Corner resources. Nice explanation of yarn-based networking game. Check out Insect Basics and other sub-pages in the upper logo. Berkeley, CA

Pond Water Web. a .pdf lesson plan. A good way of kids development of web concept from food chains. Strongly suggest "make your own cards" idea with kids investigating one or two organisms in depth and widening the web's development. From the Science Spot. Check out their other pond water links, too!

Manipulate population changes in a Jason Project pond food web on-line and watch what happens to other pond residents.

Pond Life videos: http://www.microscopyu.com/moviegallery/pondscum/index.html

Pond Life ID: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/

Field key to zooplankton: http://cfb.unh.edu/CFBkey/html/index.html

Maine fish ID: http://www.maine.gov/ifw/atv_snowmobile_watercraft/fishing/species/identification/

Information on specific Maine lakes and their organisms: http://gulfofmaine.org/kb/2.0/search.html

Food web and food chain videos from YouTube:

A musical lecture with slide show. Have your kids design, perform and video-record your own food web/chain song.

Pond Ecosystem song and cartoon slide show by Mr. C.

Energy Transfer in Ecosystems. Created by college students at UNC. Nice and simple. Includes a variety of ecosystem webs. It would be great if a group of HS students could make a web presentation on a Maine lake or stream

Food web: Visualizing and Understanding Interdependence in Nature. An excellent description of current thoughts on food web modeling. For mentors and HS students.