Activities

The following teaching activities are provided under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. You are welcome (and encouraged!) to use and adapt these materials so long as you share your modifications under the same license and acknowledge the original author (Jes Coyle) in a way that does not imply endorsement of your modifications. If you find any of these activities useful, I would love to hear about how you have used them.

Short classroom activities

(< 90 min)

Coyle, J. (2019). Malawian Aquaculture Pond Ecosystem Challenge. SimBio FMN (2019), QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/N0VP-BZ73

This case study challenges students to design a pond that will provide supplemental food security to a rural Malawian village. In the process they apply concepts of primary and secondary production, trophic efficiency, trophic levels and sustainability.

Coyle, J. (2019). Mosquito Invasion! A Lotka-Volterra Competition Case Study. SimBio FMN (2019), QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/TDNG-5F74

In this instructor-led interrupted case study, students practice interpreting Lotka-Volterra competition model parameters using data on an invasive and native mosquito species.