Pleistocene preserve: a population growth problem of mammoth proportions

A number of processes that involve large numbers are critical to civic scientific literacy, including many biological topics. Understanding the basic causes of such large-scale processes, such as population growth, speciation, and extinction, are key to engaging evolution and ecology learning. Here we present a teaching module which uses manipulatives to addresses one such topic, population growth, utilizing charismatic organisms, mammoths. The...