Panther Hunt
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Provided by: Population Education|Published on: October 19, 2022
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Synopsis
- This fun and informative classroom activity teaches students about the concept of carrying capacity by role-playing panthers hunting prey.
- Students will get up move around the classroom, apply math skills, and learn how biologically diverse ecosystems can better support populations.
Subjects: Biology, Mathematics
Authors: Population Education
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Positives
- This resource provides a thought-provoking and memorable experience for students, which will surely give them a great, age-appropriate, understanding of carrying capacity.
- This activity can be differentiated in many ways to accommodate learners at different levels or extend learning.
Additional Prerequisites
- The resource calls for 200 paper cups, but 200 small scraps of paper, lids, rocks, beads, or other materials would also work.
- Students should have a basic understanding of the relationship between predators and prey in an ecosystem.
Differentiation
- This resource would work best when working on science or math topics, but could also be applied to social studies topics, such as the carrying capacity of humans that also allows for other species to survive.
- Before completing the activity, have students predict what they think may happen and explain their ideas in writing or by a show of hands from a prompt.
- After completing the activity and discussion, have students write a reflection on their learning.
- Older students could connect this activity to ecology, sustainability, civics, or ethics topics and discuss how changing habitats and climate conditions will affect population of animals and people.
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About the Partner Provider
Population Education
Population Education provides K-12 teachers with innovative, hands-on lesson plans and professional development to teach about human population growth and its effects on the environment and human well-being. Human population has grown from 1 billion to 8 billion in just over 200 years, so it is critical to examine human impacts on wildlife, climate, and natural resources while working toward equality and justice for the world’s people. Through memorable, standards-aligned classroom activities like simulations, cooperative challenges, and debate, Population Education inspires students to tackle a variety of real-world problems and to become positively engaged in their communities as the next generation of leaders and policy makers.
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