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West Ed Lake Population
I created three interactive education modules for West Ed, a non-profit educational research organization. Each module was an interactive visual demonstration aimed at teaching kids about physics and biology.
This one is a demonstration of how different life forms interact and affect each other’s rate of population increse/decrease. A student is given a choice of several life forms to populate a lake with, and how many of each animal to add. Based on their choices, a dynamically-generated animation happens that shows what would happen with their populations over time. If they choose too much algae, for example, the larger fish will eventually die off because the smaller fish aren’t able to eat the algae fast enough to slow it’s growth, eventually using all the oxygen in the lake.
Along the way, the student is made to write hypotheses for their scenario, then explain why they made the choices they did. Then they are shown the animations, and they are allowed to modify their choices to create a balance.
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