The purpose of this exercise is to increase students' awareness of the conditions which affect the size on individual wolf packs in the wild. Students will be able to identify and describe food, water, and shelter as three essential components of a habitat. Students will be able to describe the importance of a good habitat for animals. Students will recognize that some fluctuations in a given wolf population are natural as ecological systems undergo a constant change. Students will recognize that some fluctuations in a given wolf population are caused by the intervention of man.
Graph paper is needed for making a pictorial study of the population changes.
Review the essential components of a wolf habitat with students discussing particular examples of food for a wolf population, etc. Number students off in four's. Mark two parallel lines twenty yards apart on the ground having one's line up behind one line and the two's, three's, and four's behind the opposite line. During a single round each wolf is looking for one of these components and may not change that component during that particular round. The two's, three's, and four's are the components of the habitat and use the same hand signals as noted above.