Beyond Labz

In this laboratory, students will be able to select species from the Species Selector and place them in a virtual biome defined by such variables as rai...

The goal of the Ecology laboratory is to (1) allow students to explore various abiotic variables and how they define and affect different biomes and popula...

Once the student has been brought to the Ecology laboratory, the student is placed in front of a picture window depicting one of nine possible biomes. In...

At the core of the virtual biology environment is the Species menu, which allows students to select a species and perform experiments on that species. Not a...

Species are added to the selected biome by first selecting the species in the Species menu and then adding the species using the Add Species button. Speci...

The Abiotic Variables section of the Setup menu is used to select one of nine different biomes in which the selected species will live as well as set o...

The Experiment Controller is used to start and pause experiments in the virtual biomes. Experiments consist of adding species to a virtual biome, starting...

The results from the Ecology experiments are displayed as a series of graphs of the population, biomass, or energy content as a function of time for each sp...