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The first Fish Pond game introduces simple capture-recapture techniques to estimate population size. Then asks the players to design their own sampling strategy.

The following link allows you to play to the Fish Pond Game.

The student lab (still in draft form) gives more detail and specific homework assignments.

Capture Recapture Lab

The second Fish Pond game focuses on modeling popularion growth over time. Players are asked to estimate the growth rates in two models. The student lab describes the exponential model and asks students to test if the models are significantly different. Student are asked to collect data from the game in order to conduct a formal statistical analysis.

Modeling Lab

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Instructors Notes:

Instructors can view all students attempts and scores by connecting to the following website:

Fish Game Data

 

 

 

Partial support for this work was provided by the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program at the National Science Foundation under DUE 0510392