Isle Royale and Populations Video Questions Worksheet

Engage your middle and high school science students with this guided video worksheet on Isle Royale National Park and animal population dynamics! Designed to accompany an educational YouTube video, these guided notes cover essential ecological topics including predator-prey relationships, trophic levels, energy pyramids, and species adaptations (such as r-selected and K-selected species). Perfect for biology, environmental science, or life science units, as well as easy sub plans or homework assignments.

Isle Royale National Park is the largest island on the largest freshwater lake in the world (Lake Superior)! It also has the longest predator-prey study which focuses on the moose and the wolf. By studying these two animal species, we can get a better understanding of population dynamics.

This video teaches about:

• Isle Royale his video would work well in an AP Environmental Science class (APES), when talking about Topics 3.1 (Generalist and Specialist Species), 3.2 (K-Selected r-Selected Species), 3.4 (Carrying Capacity) and 3.5 (Population Growth and Resource Availability).National Park

• What is a population?

• Generalist Species

• Specialist Species

• Competition

• r-Selected Species (including list of qualifiers)

• K-Selected Species (including list of qualifiers)

• Food Chains

• Trophic Pyramids

• The 10% Rule

• Population Growth

• Limiting Factors on Population Growth

• Carrying Capacity

• and more!

This video would work well in an AP Environmental Science class (APES), when talking about Topics 1.7 (The Hydrologic (Water) Cycle), 5.5 (Irrigation Methods) and 8.2 (Human Impacts on Ecosystems).

To use this product, students will watch this video about Populations on Isle Royale National Park. Then, students will answer the provided questions which follow along with the video.

There are also several provided discussion questions for the class after the video, if you want to further the discussion.

This product includes:

1. Teacher Directions-including prep info and materials needed  

2. Teacher Procedure

3. Student Worksheet

4. Student Worksheet Answers

5. Teacher Tips

To do this activity, you will need:

• Pencil

• Copy of Isle Royale National Park Guided Video Questions (INCLUDED)

• Ability to project a YouTube video to the class

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