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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: It's Crowded in Here! A Study of Plant Population Density

For Students 3rd - 5th
Like humans, plants can be negatively affected by overcrowding. Unlike humans, plants cannot get up and move to a new environment or explore how to utilize new resources. This experiment will explore the effects of crowding (population...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about population density within environments and ecosystems. They determine the density of a population and think about why population density and distribution information is useful to engineers for city planning and...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: African Lions: Modeling Populations

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Limiting Factors in the Desert Ecosystem

For Students 3rd - 7th
Describes conditions in a desert that limit how large populations of species can grow.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Mars Habitat

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students are asked to examine a model for a space station on Mars that will house six researchers studying the possibility of establishing a colony. Given the dimensions of the station and the minimum amount of space...
Handout
Travel Document Systems

Tds: Malawi: Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
See how the Great Rift Valley and Lake Malawi dominate Malawi's geography. Read about the climate, terrain, and population density. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
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Other

Virginia Places: What Determines the Boundaries of a Region in Virginia?

For Students 9th - 10th
Although this site talks about regions in Virginia, it offers excellent information on regions in general, for example, ways regions might be classified; e.g., by population density, geology, watershed, ecosystem, economy,...

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