Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Population Growth Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Logistic Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students are introduced to logistic growth curves using a graphing calculator. Lab data includes the number of bacteria over a 20-hour period. The activity numerically approximates the derivative and uses regression to find a curve...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Limiting Factors to Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Logistic Growth, Differential Equations, Slope Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students investigate differential equations analytically, graphically and numerically and see relationships between the three approaches.
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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...
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Principles of Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent interactive review from Palomar College of population growth and how it can be described. Try out the interactive calculators of population size.
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...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The World Population: Logistic Model With Ti Interactive!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, the logistic model for the growth of the world's population will be developed.
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.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Managing the National Debt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, the students will predict the national debt by using logistic growth. The students will find the current national debt and use it to make their predictions.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Calcumites Are Coming! Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students model the growth of a population and compare ideal growth with a population whose growth is limited. They use technology to find exponential and logistic regression equations and use them to plot models.
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Business Climate: Texas: Top Industries

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide to Texas' top nine industries links the reader to articles and other information on each topic.

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