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In this investigation, students play a card game to simulate population changes and potential species loss in a temperate forest community. They analyze their resulting data sets to determine which factors had a greater impact on biodiversity decline or loss. They then research one of these threats to biodiversity and propose a workable solution or a solution to mitigate the damage. Finally, students evaluate the potential success of the solution they propose.
- Connected to Unit 9: Global Change, topic 9.10: Human Impacts on Biodiversity
In this investigation, students play a card game to simulate population changes and potential species loss in a temperate forest community due to realistic local factors such as habitat loss or fragmentation, pollution, invasive pathogens, overharvesting, climate change, and the establishment of invasive species. Students analyze their resulting data sets to determine which factors had a greater impact on biodiversity decline or loss within the community. They are then challenged to research one of these threats to biodiversity and propose a real-world, workable solution to the threat, or a solution to mitigate the damage created by the threat. Finally, students have the opportunity to evaluate the potential success of the solution they propose by introducing it as a rule in the modeling card game.
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