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Carrying Capacity Game - Ecosystems Limiting Factors & Resource Availability

Rated 4.89 out of 5, based on 46 reviews
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Grade Levels
5th - 7th
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Pages
18 pages
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This activity was fun, and engaging. Terrific way to get students to understand carrying capacity. The game was fun and my students enjoyed.
My students loved this game! They found it so fun! It made it so much easier for them to understand carrying capacity, overpopulation, and limiting factors!
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Description

Your students will love this fun game on carrying capacity and limiting factors in an ecosystem. Students will play through several rounds to see how many wolves this ecosystem supports. Students will learn about carrying capacity and limiting factors in this fun game/simulation. This game can be played more than once because the outcome will be different each time.

This unit comes with:

  • Directions
  • Animal cards
  • Two round variations
  • An alternative version of the game
  • Follow-up discussion questions
  • Follow-up page

You do not need any other materials, Just the cards. 

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Caroline ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Extremely Satisfied

I used this to reinforce the idea of carrying capacity. I did it with my whole class and I passed out the cards instead of letting them hunt for food around the room. It was very effective and my students were very engaged, which is awesome since most of them usually do not like to participate.

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Assessments for 6.4 Utah SEEd

Total Pages
18 pages
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NGSSMS-LS2-1
Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. Emphasis is on cause and effect relationships between resources and growth of individual organisms and the numbers of organisms in ecosystems during periods of abundant and scarce resources.

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