Investigate population changes over many years in a matter of minutes. With Exploring Populations students can study growth and the interrelationships among populations of organisms in a variety of ecosystems. Through this simulation and interactive investigations students explore topics such as food chains and webs, population growth curves, carrying capacity, predation, interspecies competition, global warming, and more. In addition, this unit will build important process and critical thinking skills, such as predicting, gathering and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, examining cause and effect relationships, and comparing actual and expected results. Most importantly, Exploring Populations allows students to dynamically look at how populations interact and instantly see the effect changes in the environment have on all populations.
Students can see long-term effects quickly and develop an awareness of the environment.
As a result students will be better able to visualize the relationships that exist among populations, and create understandable and workable mental models of relationships within ecosystems. Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited. All rights reserved.