Week 9

 

Learned 

This week was cool because we combined almost all of our life science knowledge and used it together. We did a beans activity that helped us learn about predators and their effects. We then did a rabbit simulation that helped us understand natural selection. 

Related

In this lab, I related the knowledge we have been learning about life sciences to the simulations we did. We could relate our genetics and natural selection knowledge to the different simulations we did. Having prior knowledge about life sciences as a whole made these simulations much easier to understand.  

Apply to teaching

This simulation with the beans was fun and engaging, but it was overstimulating; we could do it with students in a way that isn't as overstimulating. I liked the rabbit simulation; it was really fun to play with the different settings and see the effects we change and what it does to the rabbit population. I would defiantly use the rabbit simulation in my teaching, but I don't think I would implement the bean simulation!

Clear and Confusing

The simulation itself was confusing; I didn't completely understand why we were calculating the differences in utensils being used and why we would just do the total of everyone. Once we ignored that, it was clear and was really fun!

Questions

No questions at this time; it was a fun activity!