Description
Your students will love this fun science game on carrying capacity and limiting factors in an ecosystem. They will play through several rounds to see how many wolves this ecosystem supports. In this fun game/simulation, students will learn about carrying capacity and limiting factors in an ecosystem. This game can be played more than once because the outcome will differ.
This unit comes with:
- Directions
- Animal cards
- Two round variations
- An alternative version of the game
- Follow-up discussion questions
- Follow-up page
You do not need any other materials, Just the cards.
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I used this to reinforce the idea of carrying capacity. I did it with my whole class and I passed out the cards instead of letting them hunt for food around the room. It was very effective and my students were very engaged, which is awesome since most of them usually do not like to participate.
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