Spread of an Infectious Disease and Population Growth | |
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Download Student Handout Download Teacher Notes High School Activity: A simple simulation demonstrates exponential spread of infectious disease in a population, and discussion questions develop student understanding of how human diseases spread. Additional discussion questions and a graphing activity develop an understanding of exponential and logistic population growth. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Tests: This quiz assesses students knowledge of how populations evolve, gene pools, types of isolation, speciation, species diversity, genetic drift, and macroevolution. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Evolution of Populations Quiz
Quadrant Population Size Sampling | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Experiment: Students use a quadrant sampling method to predict the population size of a certain type of plant. More... |
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Published by Janet McVittie
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Tests: This quiz assesses students knowledge of population ecology, rates of growth, population models, environmental science, human impact on an ecosystem, and ecological succession. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Experiment: Students participate in an activity that models a population of rabbits and how density-dependent factors affect a population size. Topics included are competition, predation, exponential growth, logistic growth, carry capacity, limiting factors, growth calculations and graphs. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Graphing Deer Populations | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Worksheet: Students use data about deer populations to create a graph and answer conceptual questions based upon the data. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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Human Population Growth | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Worksheet: Students will create a graph of human population growth, use it to predict future growth, and identify factors that affect population growth. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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Food for Thought | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students model how populations of different regions of the world compare with regards to numbers and food availabilty. Students will be divided by regions, and given food. The amount of food is based on statistics of each region. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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Biodiversity of Ponds | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Experiment: Students will observe and record data from 3 samples of pond water. Students will identify organisms (protists, arthropods..etc) and numbers of organisms in each. Students will prepare a report that discusses the biodiversity of each pond. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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