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This activity proceeds as follows: 1. Students brainstorm about why it is important to estimate the population of organisms 2. Students learn how to estimate population using the “sampling” technique 3. Students learn how to estimate population using the “mark and recapture” technique 4. Students design a study to estimate a real population, and carry out their study. 5. Extension Activity: Students read an article about the overfishing of Bluefin tuna, which is down to 4% of the population that

This activity proceeds as follows: 1. First, learn about the theory of Tragedy of the Commons, using a short video link 2. Then students describe a real-world example using a website (provided) as a resource 3. Then students walk around the school (in pairs), or as an entire class (teacher lead), and must identify examples of Tragedy of the Commons around the school 4. Students generate possible solutions to the problem areas that they located 5. In conclusion, students choose two real-wor

Brief: In this Next Generation Science Standards Aligned lab, students write rules for a game that simulates how a food chain works. They play two games: In Game 1, they play their first iteration of rules, taking 12 rounds of population data, and graphing the data. In Game 2, students play revised rules; tweaking their original set of rules to make the game a better model for a real ecosystem. They, again, graph their data, and analyze the results by answering conclusion questions. This ac