Activity

Limiting Factors Game

Time: One 50-minute class period

A lesson designed to explore the effect of some limiting factors in an environment. Students take on the roles of frogs in a pond ecosystem. Limiting factors are added to the simulation and students will experience their effect on the frogs and their habitat.

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Extension: Try this great critical thinking/problem solving game: CROAK leads kids through a discovery of the impact of exotic species (cane toads) on native species.

TEKS: 8.6
TAKS Objectives: 2