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Biomagnification and bald eagles
In this activity, students will study biomagnification by using paper cutouts to represent food containing chemicals eaten by fish. The students will then repeat this activity but as an eagle collecting fish. The amount of chemicals taken in by each eagle will then be compared to amounts taken in by each fish.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By Elizabeth Caveny, Janet Carson, Heather Subleski, and Jeannie Galluzzo.

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Biomagnification in the Great Lakes ecosystems
This lesson will focus on biomagnification as it relates to the ecosystems of the Great Lakes region in the mid-western United States. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
Provided by: National Geographic