Unit 3

Unit 3-Populations

Three different ways to learn material for this chapter:

Link to Book-read Chapters 5 and 6 pages 132-174

Slides for Unit 3

Mrs. Campbell's Videos

Mr. Smedes' Videos

Week 7

3.1 Generalist and Specialist Species

• Panda discussion

• Video-Niche Partitioning and Species Coexistence

3.2 K-Selected r-Selected Species

• r & K Strategies activity

3.3 Survivorship Curves

• Bubble Lab

Week 8 

3.4 Carrying Capacity

• Continue Bubble Lab

3.5 Population Growth and Resource Availability

• APES Mini-Lab: Carrying Capacity

3.6 Age Structure Diagrams

• Power of the Pyramids

Week 9

3.7 Total Fertility Rate

• Population Math Practice

3.8 Human Population Dynamics

• Video- Hans Rosling: Global Population Growth, Box by Box

• Cemetery Lab

3.9 Demographic Transition

• Demographic Transition Activity