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Rats

Jun 7th, 2012

Could not use the resource. The activity sheet did not download. When I tried to click on it the page just refreshed.

Reviewer: Peter Fisherf

Rats review

Jun 18th, 2009

Worked quite well with my low ability year 10's. I had to complete some of the tables for them in advance so that they could cope with the maths involved though.

Reviewer: Rachel Minton

Bears in trouble

Mar 2nd, 2009

I did this activity with a low ability year 8 and it workedreally well, i stretched it out over 2 lessons and then they presented their findings as a news reporter for newsround (with a video to film themselves). The pupils really enjoyed the activity and thought of themselves as ecologists!

Reviewer: Sarah Penny

Rats

Jun 18th, 2008

I have used this activity for middle ability and high ability year 10 classes, adapting the amount of guidance provided for calculations accordingly.

I asked the class why birds fly to remote islands in the first place, and then why they think so many birds have been wiped out there recently. Once I they suggested rats, I showed a couple of video clips of rats from www.arkive.com which they really enjoyed - clips of a rat eating an egg; baby rats; young rats; and an overview of brown rats.

Both classes especially engaged with the graph of rat / owl population dynamics, and I would say that this is a great opportunity to pull together their understanding of many topics within ecology.

This is a great resource!

Reviewer: Anthony Jackson

Rats

May 20th, 2008

I have just delivered the Rats lesson to my lower ability group in Y10. They really got into it - especially the excel activity.

Reviewer: Juliette Thomas

Rats

Feb 8th, 2008

I really liked this one - especially the excel file to help with the graph plotting. My students were able to see it using a multimedia projector and it was useful for class discussion.

Reviewer: Carol Pratt

Rats

Jul 6th, 2007

Plan to use this week with year 9. I think it will go down well, especially with the computer programmes-hope the school computer will accept the macros as it looked invaluable for the students to play with!

Reviewer: f m

rats

Jul 4th, 2007

eXCELLENT until we tried the macro which did not work, would have been a good lesson for my school which has linited computers, for me to be ablr to use the model on the interactive board and show the whole class.
very stimulating tho....

Reviewer: Joanna Hinds

enabling macros

Feb 24th, 2007

To enable macros go to Tools, Macros, Security and select the level of security medium. Reload file and when a dialog box prompts select enable macros. That's all you need to do to start using this excellent modelling spreadsheet.

Reviewer: Lucho Corrales

Rats

Oct 25th, 2006

Looks good if only I could do the modelling bit by enabling the Macros - anyone with nay advice??

Reviewer: Anne Maingay

reason for macro problem?

Sep 5th, 2006

Looks like a good activity, but macros on spreadsheet don't run due to our firewall software. I'm going to quiz my IT expert husband, but it is something that the other people with problems may wish to check.

Reviewer: Sarah Lewins

Works without technology!

Apr 13th, 2006

Used this in an old fashioned (no IT at all) classroom with lowish Y10 class at the end of a lesson about food chains - even though they had to do the calcluations be hand (calculator) it worked very well! Thanks

Reviewer: Simon Hepburn

Population control

Mar 26th, 2006

I was very impressed!
I'm afraid I managed to download the whole thing with no problem. I also added a sheet to the excel file to show the answers calculated for a whole year with an accompanying graph that soared to 64,000 rats in a year! This led onto discussion as to why this could never really happen and so into the rest of the spreadsheet.

Reviewer: Ben Lovick

Rat files

Mar 21st, 2006

Great model. You have to log in using your UPD8 username and password to be able to download the Excel file, otherwise it tries to do it as a Word file.

Reviewer: Louise McLaren

Rats

Mar 12th, 2006

Unable to open or save. Disaappointed as it would fit in well with the BTEC course we propose to run in Sept. Any suggestions.
PS i love the upd8 scenarios, I have used many in my KS3 and hope to use them in BTEC courses next year. Keep producing this incredibly valuable teaching resource.

Reviewer: Linda Worrall

Rats

Mar 7th, 2006

Looks good but unable to use macros. This is disappointing


Comment from UPD8 Team:

Sorry to hear that the macros didn't work on your machine. I have tried downloading the spreadsheet and the macros worked fine on my pc which runs on Windows 2000. This has been similarly tested by colleagues at the ASE. We
can only suggest that it might be due to the version of Windows that you are running on your computer?

Reviewer: David Ford