Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Modeling Your world, Session B during the third day of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Today we learned about how populations 
work and how the rabbits and wolves 
would survive or if they would die out.  
We also learned how to compare the 
populations of two different countries 
and see the difference.  We had fun doing 
the outside activity and enjoyed using 
the program that was on the shodor 
website.

-Giang and Dominque

Today we modeled population growth using 
Stella. We learned how to balance a 
population of hares and lynx. We also 
compared the population of the US to the 
populations of other countries. It was fun 
to model the  populations and also to 
expirement with rabbits and wolves on the 
web.

-Ken

I enjoyed everything tpoday.  I prefer 
to work alone because my partners seem 
to hog the work.  I also have to complain 
about the stuffy room. I know I don't 
really have a right to complain, because I 
forget to take my allergy medicine, but I 
feel like I can't get enough air.  If possible, 
I'd like to have the class in another room, or 
go outside whenever possible.  But I had fun 
with everything today.

-Joanna

We had fun doing model on population because 
we did reports on Hares and lynx.

-Edward and Tiara

We had a very fun time today building two 
Stella models on populations.  One of the models 
on the population of Guatemala was to see how
it compared to the U.S. population.  We also 
played Lynx and hares outside and found out how 
to graph the game on Stella.  We learned how to 
work on Stella more in depth.

-April and Jamie

We had a lot of fun learning about populations. 
It was very interesting seeing how the food chain 
changes so drastically over a short period of 
time. We enjoyed building two population models 
on Stella. It was cool to see how the U.S. and 
Israel population compared on a graph. At the end
of the day we played a game which showed how 
rabbits, wolves, and grass interacted. Today was 
our favorite day so far because we got to play 
foxes and rabbits on the computer and see how 
long they survived.

-Dawn and Sophie