Learning goals:

• Represent and interpret data on a line graph.
• Compare results for simulation runs.
• Manage a simulated ecosystem, keeping it healthy.
• Identify and explain challenges of being a wildlife manager and meeting specific goals.

Student Challenge:

• Keep the ecosystem healthy while managing related human interests, even in the face of unexpected events, such as a drought.

Curricular Connections:

• Science: Populations, ecosystems, scientific method
• Math: Representing and interpreting data
• Reading: Describing connections among ideas