Teacher's guide for Fixing Deer Overpopulation

by Kathleen Haines

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Introduction

Use this WebQuest to help 11-12 discrete mathematics students learn about Deer Population Growth. The goal is to get students engaging in critical thinking.

Overview

Main Topic:	Deer Population Growth
Subtopics:	, , ,
Grade Level:	11-12
Subject(s):	discrete mathematics
Learning Goal:	engaging in critical thinking

Vision and Reality

If the learning goal were achieved in the most ideal of perfect worlds it would look something like:

Students will be researching different roles and have an engaging debate over what perspective their group will present to the class. Hopefully some in depth thinking will be occuring and some opinions will be changed.

However, what I anticipate probably looks more like:

Based on the Vision set for this activity, the actual reality is more likely to be the vision. I am being optimistic about this one!! The hardest part will probably getting them to be creative and argue their point effectivly to their small group even if they are shy. They have to totally buy into their role and support it.

The What - If Inventory

To give the activity its best chance at helping students learn, I assembled this list of possible resources:

Standards

Conclusion

created by Kathleen Haines email: khaines@srsd.org,kathih22@aol.com http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/khaines/population1/webquest.htm