Ecology/Environmental Science activities

What is an autotroph, and what is a heterotroph? What are other names for autotrophs and heterotrophs? I know they form a food chain, but where (which level)? Can I identify examples of each? Middle school science students face this series of questions...

Is a lion a secondary consumer? Are worms and root-eating grubs decomposers or primary consumers? Students in middle school life science will answer these questions, among others, using their taxonomy skills. Students will classify sixty-four organisms...

It is time for an outdoor classroom adventure! This two-page forest scavenger hunt offers middle or high school life science and ecology students a chance to find a fantastic array of nature-themed species and objects. Many of the listed items are...

Welcome! This listing features a fun cryptogram for an ecology unit that covers the interactions of species in the life sciences. A cryptogram is a type of puzzle with an encrypted text. In this cryptogram, students will decipher a number code to...

Welcome! This activity features 23 ecological interactions of species for students to classify. Students decide whether the type of symbiosis is intraspecific competition, interspecific competition, mutualism (++), commensalism (+0), amensalism (0-),...

Welcome! This activity features twenty-five ecological interactions for students to classify. Students decide whether the type of symbiosis is intraspecific competition, interspecific competition, mutualism (++), commensalism (+0), amensalism (0-),...

This listing features a three-page user-friendly lab guide for an interactive mark and recapture simulation, where students use poker chips to symbolize fish captured in a lake. I facilitate this mark and recapture simulation in my year-long field...

Welcome! This is a four-page test about the basics of ecology. I proctor it in my seventh-grade life science class. This test may also be serviceable in an introductory high school ecology unit.   This PDF document will become editable...

Welcome! This forest quadrant map reading analysis activity is ideal for an environmental science, field ecology, forestry, or a natural resources course in agriculture, or in science.    This activity includes two mock maps of a...

This listing features three crossword puzzles about the basics of ecology for an ecology unit in either a middle school life science course or for an ecology unit in high school biology. The fourth page is a master word bank of the 48 terms for the...

This two-page summative pre- and post-course test is best suited for a field ecology/environmental science hybrid course. The thirty multiple-choice questions cover the following subtopics: groundwater, public relations, acid rain, Greenhouse effect,...