Month: March 2016

Shark Tank

In Science we played a game called Shark Tank. There was one shark, four minnows and  lots of seaweed in the simulation. Every round the shark had to eat two minnows to survive, the minnows had to eat one seaweed, and the seaweed couldn’t eat anything. If each creature ate what they needed to, they could reproduce. If a seaweed survived, it could reproduce. We had two simulations, the first had four rounds and the second had five rounds. The chart above shows information about the second simulation. Our goal was to make the populations grow or stay the same each round. We accomplished our goal. We used a strategy that made sure the shark didn’t eat too many minnows each round, and the minnows didn’t eat too much seaweed. This way the starting populations would not get smaller but would either grow or stay the same. I think if we continued this strategy, we would get the same results. I think this teaches us that if everyone only eats what they need to survive and not too much, no species will go extinct.