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Level A: Up and Down in the Wild: Predator and Prey
This lesson allows students to explore the interactions of two animal populations (wolves and moose) within an
ecosystem. One animal in the simulation is a predator.
The other animal is its prey. Their populations rise and
fall (oscillate) over time as they interact and impact one
another.
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Learning goals:
- Match predators with corresponding prey animals.
- Explore a population simulation with two interacting
populations.
- Represent and interpret data on a line graph.
- Tell the story of how and why two populations go up
and down (oscillate) over time.
- Identify predator/prey animals in ecosystems.
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Student Challenge:
- Determine which animal population grows most quickly
versus least quickly and be able to explain what created
these two results.
Curricular Connections:
- Science: Populations, ecosystems, scientific method
- Representing and interpreting data (Common Core Math)
- Describing connections among ideas (Common Core Reading)
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