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Hawk and Mouse Game
Name:
Date:
Hour:
Materials:
-1 piece of paper
-Pencil
-Masking tape
-Meter stick
-4 sheets of field mice
-2 sheets of hawks
Procedure:
1. Using the masking tape and the meter stick make an area 30 cm square on the floor.
This is where the hawk and field mice live.
30cm
30cm
30cm
30cm
2. Drop 5 field mice in the area.
3. Take another piece of masking tape and mark a 30cm line 150cm away from the
square.
150cm
60cm
4. Stand back behind the line and throw a hawk into the area. Try to make it land on as
many fieldmice as possible. If a field mouse is touching the hawk, then it is caught.
5. Pick up the hawk card. Also, remove any fieldmice caught.
6. Here are the rules
-This game is played by generations. In generation 1 you had 1 hawk and 5
mice.
-If you have 3 mice left after the hawk has been thrown, then the next
generation doubles that amount. So, for generation 2 you will have 6 mice.
-In order to live, a hawk must land on 4 fieldmice. For each 4 fieldmice caught,
the hawk will reproduce another hawk for the next generation. If your hawk
catches 4 to 7 field mice, add another hawk for the next generation. If it catches
8 add 2 hawks.
-If a hawk does not catch 4 fieldmice, it dies from lack of food. Do not let the
hawk population drop below 1. Pretend that a new one flies into the area
looking for food. Start with 1 in the next generation.
-You have to complete 20 generations and write the number of fieldmice and
hawks that start each generation. I have completed generation 1 for you.
Generations # Of Hawks # Of Fieldmice
1
1
5
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Answer the following
questions when you have
completed the game.
1.Which population reaches
higher numbers? Why is
this?
2.As the fieldmouse
population gets bigger what
happens to the population of
hawks?
3. What do predators do to
the size of a population?