Module 3 Lesson 2 - Rabbits and Grass Model

Resource type

• Lesson Plan

Content area

• Science- Life Sciences

Tools

• StarLogo Nova 2.0 (HTML5/JavaScript)

Tags

• ecosystem
• decode

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: Looking under the Hood 20 minutes (New Learning/Discovery)

1. Familiar and New Command Blocks
2. Decoding a model — looking for the parts and interactions between them
3. What calls what? — execution of the program loop
4. Optional - discuss how the prerequisite concepts discussed in Lesson 1 are and are not shown in the model.

Activity #2: Designing and Running Experiments 20 minutes (Guided Practice)

1. Experimental design
2. Running experiments
3. Collecting and analyzing data

Wrap-Up 5 minutes (Reflection)

1. What does computer modeling and simulation allow us to do that would be difficult to do in the real world?

StarLogo Nova Models

• M3.L1.A2 (Rabbits & Grass STARTER base model)

• M3.L1.A2 (Rabbits & Grass with Predator)

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