Curated OER
Intermediate Activity: Energy Guide Labels
High schoolers explore energy efficient appliances. In this economics and ecology instructional activity, students compare and analyze EnergyGuide labels of various appliances. High schoolers discuss federal government...
Curated OER
Snow Treasure: Marie McSwigan
Students read and discuss Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Carrying Capacity: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce the carrying capacity and show how it affects a population. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Carrying Capacity."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Carrying Capacity: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce the carrying capacity and show how it affects a population. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Carrying Capacity."
Other
The Sustainable Scale Project: Carrying Capacity
Students study carrying capacity, a measure of sustainability within changing conditions inside ecosystems.
University of Nebraska Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha: Carrying Capacity
Read through some case studies, and study data that shows how wildlife populations react when they reach carrying capacity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomes and Population Dynamics
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Students will look at the population dynamics involved with the diversity...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Crystal Ball Math: Predicting Population Growth
In this environmental science fair project, students will learn some of the ways in which the population growth of animals is modeled, and then use the logistic model to determine how a population grows when it starts far below, at, or...
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Other
Clemson Cooperative Extension: The Basics of Population Dynamics [Pdf]
Students learn the many ecological factors that affect the carrying capacity for populations of wild species.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Population Growth Curves
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...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Biotic vs. Abiotic
This NY Regents prep site provides a nice overview of what abiotic and biotic factors of an ecosystem are, as well as a brief description of carrying capacity.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Competition of Abiotic and Biotic Factors
This tutorial explores abiotic and biotic factors with videos and interactive activities.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Survival of a Species
Given scenarios, illustrations or descriptions, the student will describe how long-term survival of species is dependent on changing resource bases that are limited.
Other
Biology at Shaw High School: What Do Living Things Need to Survive?
Discusses the interrelatedness of all living things and of ecosystems and biomes, and what organisms need to survive and to maximize the carrying capacity of an ecosystem. This explanation is followed by a series of activities including...
Texas A&M University
Srac: Fact Sheets: Trout
The carrying capacity of a trout production unit depends on fish size and water quality factors such as oxygen content, temperature, water flow and volume. Most commercial trout farms in the South use rectangular concrete tanks in...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: African Lions: Modeling Populations
Learn to distinguish between exponential and logistic growth of populations, identify carrying capacity, differentiate density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors, apply population models to data sets and determine...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Population Growth Patterns
[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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating South Crow River: Discharge, Turbidity, Erosion, Sediments
In this field investigation, small groups of learners will observe and measure characteristics of the South Crow River near Mayer, Minnesota. Data collection on these characteristics will include but not be limited to: speed of current...
PBS
Idaho Ptv: Dialogue for Kids: Wildlife Management
A collection of facts and links for learning about wildlife management. The facts cover what wildlife management is, the job of a wildlife manager, biodiversity, predators and prey, land capacity, habitat, and endangered animals. Other...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Limiting Factors to Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize limiting factors to the population growth and understand how the factors influence the growth in poplution.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Population Growth Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Check out the patterns of population growth and recognize the exponential and logistic growth similarities and differences.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Growth of Human Populations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how the human population is rapidly expanding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reveals how human population growth has paralleled advances in agriculture, such as the advent of agriculture, and the onset of the Green Revolution.
Other
The Sustainable Scale Project: Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint is rooted in the fact that all renewable resources come from the earth. It accounts for the flows of energy and matter to and from any defined economy and converts these into the corresponding land/water area...