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Worksheet
Curated OER

Graphing Functions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this graphing functions worksheet, students write functions in logarithmic and exponential forms.  They evaluate logarithms and determine the inverse of a function.  Students graph functions.  This six-page worksheet contains 20...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shape Shifters- Trees and the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a tree sculpture. In this trees and the environment lesson, students learn about the parts of a tree, discuss what a tree needs in order to grow, find images of trees in art and nature, use various materials to create a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My "Red" Room

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners utilize art analysis skills by examining the work of Henri Matisse. In this painting lesson, students examine L'Atelier Rouge by Henri Matisse and identify the objects in the room and colors used. Learners create their own rough...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Art Ideas for Your Adopted Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students honor an adopted tree with artwork. In this adopted tree instructional activity, students find a tree in their neighborhood. They follow the tree throughout the year, keep notes, draw sketches, take photos and rubbings. They...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if Logistic Growth Model, Abstract Version

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are presented with an equation for a logistic growth model and are asked to analyze it. They are then questioned about a graph showing bacterial population growth. Next, they must use information from earlier...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if Logistic Growth Model, Explicit Version

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are presented with a graph showing the growth of the U.S. population from 1790 to 1940 and are given the equation for a logistic function for it. They are asked to use the equation and the graph to find the...
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Website
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Crystal Ball Math: Predicting Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Population Growth Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers different patterns of population growth.
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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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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...
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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.
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Interactive
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.
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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...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if a Sse Modeling London's Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, learners are shown a table of population data for the city of London and are asked to explore whether a linear, quadratic, or exponential function would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. They are next...
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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.
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Lesson Plan
Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy: Population Management

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students learn about the necessity of managing the herd size and grazing rights of the cattle in East Africa. [6.01]
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Graphic
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Exponential Models

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Richland Community College contains specific examples of where logarithmic and exponential formulas are used, including: exponential growth and decay, Gaussian, logistics growth, and logarithmic.
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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.
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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.
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Unit Plan
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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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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