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OH DEER A non-technological model for species survival and predator/prey interactions. http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sci/sci35.txt

GRADE LEVEL: 4-6, Science-Environmental Education OVERVIEW: This lesson in environmental education is necessary to show children the interdependence of animal life with their environment. PURPOSE: With our planet in the serious condition it exists today, children need to see the plan of nature so that they can understand the need to preserve and protect our resources.

OBJECTIVES Students will be able to: 1) identify and describe food, water and shelter as three essential components of habitat. 2) describe the importance of good habitat for animals. 3) define "limiting factors" and give examples. 4) recognize that some fluctuations in wildlife populations are natural as ecological systems undergo a constant change.

DIRECTIONS Have students count off in fours, with all those sharing the same number gathering in certain corners of the classroom. (This game is best played outdoors but may be adapted to inside play.) Mark off two parallel lines on the playground or floor that are about ten to twenty yards apart. Have all the "ones" behind one line and all the rest behind the other line. The "ones" will become the deer. The other students will become the components of habitat: food, water, shelter and space.

When a deer is looking for food, it should clamp its hands over its stomach. When it's looking for water, it puts its hands over its mouth. When it is looking for shelter, it holds its hands together over its head. When it is looking for space, it should hold its arms straight out at its sides. A deer can choose to look for any of these needs during each round, but it cannot change what it is looking for in that round. It can change in the next round if it survives. The students who are the components of habitat may choose which they will be at the beginning of each round. They will depict that component in the same manner as the deer.

The game starts with all players lined up on their respective lines and with their backs to the students at the other side. The teacher asks all students to pick their sign. When they are ready, count: "One...two...three." At the count of three, the students turn and face each other showing their signs. The deer run to the habitat component they are looking for and take that component back to the deer side of the line. (This represents the deer's successfully meeting its needs and reproducing as a result.) Any deer that fails to find the component it was seeking dies and becomes part of the habitat, joining the students on the habitat side. The teacher keeps track of the number of deer at the beginning and ending of each round. Continue play for fifteen rounds.

At the end of fifteen rounds discuss the activity; encouraging the students to talk about what they experienced and saw. The herd grows in the beginning, then some must die as the habitat is depleted. This fluctuation is a natural process unless factors which limit population become excessive. Discuss what excessive limiting factors are: drought, fires, deforestation, uncontrolled hunting. The teacher should make a line graph of the number of deer alive at the end of each round to show that it is naturally cyclical. Have the students summarize what they have learned from the activity.

If the game is played again, be sure to include the limiting factors If the game is played again, be sure to include the limiting factors. For example, if their is a drought no student on the habitat side can choose water as their symbol. A new graph can be made to show the difference made in the natural cycles.

Hare and Lynx Case Study When you have finished tabulating the graph data and discussing it, ask the students if they have ever heard of the Hudson Bay trappers in American history. Tell them briefly who they were. There is a hundred years or more of records of the activities of these trappers. In those records are some interesting data. These data refer to pelts shipped from America to Europe, particularly the pelts of snowshoe hares and lynx. Researchers have found that snowshoe hare populations seem to peak about every 7 – 9 years and then crash, repeating the process over each comparable time period.

Ask the students to look at the graphs and answer: It has also been discovered that lynx populations do the same thing – except that they do it one year behind the hare populations. Ask the students to look at the graphs and answer: Which animal is the predator? Which is the prey? Are predators controlling the prey, or are the prey controlling the predators? (We have been brought up to “know” that predators control the prey – and are now discovering that this is not so. The number of prey animals available tells us how many predators can live in the area.) Is this like the deer habitat game we just played? Who controls? (Sometimes the deer– when the deer population is not too large; sometimes the habitat – when the deer population “gets on top of it” and destroys the vegetative food and cover.)

Hare and lynx graphs

Some recent research has added a new dimension to the story of the snowshoe hares and the lynx. It has been found that the major food of the hare is a small willow. As hare populations grow, the use of the willow plants grows, too. But, when the willow plant has been “hedged” or eaten back so far, the plant generates a toxin (poison) which precludes use by the hare. That is when the hare population crashes, followed by the crash of the lynx population about a year later. Then the willow, relieved of pressure, begins to grow again. The hare population begins to grow in response, and , last of all, within a year or so, the lynx population follows. And the cycle has begun again – over and over – every 7 -9 years.