Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Population Growth Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar...
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Population Curve: Significance of Breakpoints

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about three models of population growth: linear, exponential, and logistic. Then conduct a population experiment to see how populations can work in the real world, and see how linear graphs can help simplify complicated ones.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Population Growth Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will identify the definition of carrying capacity and analyze other types of growth patterns of a population and relate these to the population dynamics of...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.5 Population Growth Limits

For Students 5th - 9th
Discover how ecosystems respond to population growth limits.