Module 2 Lesson 4 - Customize Your Water Pumping Model

Resource type

• Lesson Plan

Tools

• StarLogo Nova 2.0 (HTML5/JavaScript)

Tags

• water
• experimental design
• use-modify-create

Slide Deck

Teaching Summary

Getting Started 5 minutes

1. Review of the previous day’s lesson and concepts and connection to today’s lesson

Activity #1: Computational Science and Designing Your Project 20 minutes

1. Introduce key components of the computational science process
2. Define your computational science project

Activity #2: Designing and Developing Your Model 20 minutes

1. Agents and environment
2. Interactions

Wrap-Up 5 minutes (Reflection)

1. What research is necessary to ground your model in reality?
2. How will you check to see if your model is realistic?

StarLogo Nova Models

• M2.L4.A1 Extension (Water Pumping model with vegetation)

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