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Diagram and MicroSim Details

Total Visual Elements: 80 Diagrams: 10 MicroSims: 67

Chapter 1: Foundations Of Ecology

Total elements: 5

Ecosystem Components Interactive Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will be able to classify ecosystem components as biotic or abiotic and explain how they interact....

Ecosystem Concept Map

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Unknown
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students will be able to organize the 20 foundational ecology concepts into a network showing their relationships and explain how concepts connect to ...

Levels of Ecological Organization

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain the hierarchical levels of ecological organization from individual to biosphere and describe what emerges at each lev...

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Cycle

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 10
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration form a complementary cycle, tracing the flow of energy and the cycling of...

Water Properties and Ecological Importance

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain five key properties of water and connect each property to its ecological importance....

Chapter 2: Ecosystems And Biomes

Total elements: 5

Biome Connections Network

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students assess how material and energy flows connect different biomes across the planet....

Energy Pyramid Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 10
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students calculate energy available at each trophic level using the ten percent rule....

Interactive Food Web Builder

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students construct a food web and predict the effects of removing a species....

Ocean Zones Interactive

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students describe the physical conditions and representative organisms of each ocean zone....

World Biome Map

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students classify and locate the seven major terrestrial biomes on a world map....

Chapter 3: Energy Flow

Total elements: 5

Complete Ecosystem Energy Budget

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students construct a complete energy budget for an ecosystem, tracing energy from solar input through GPP, NPP, and NEP....

Ecosystem Carbon Budget Calculator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 9
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students calculate GPP, NPP, and NEP for different ecosystem scenarios and determine whether an ecosystem is a carbon sink or source....

Energy Flow Tracker

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 5
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students trace energy through a food chain, accounting for respiration, waste, and transfer at each trophic level....

Global NPP Heatmap

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students compare net primary productivity across different biomes and explain why some regions are more productive than others....

Solar Energy Budget

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students trace the path of solar energy from the sun to its capture by producers, accounting for losses at each step....

Chapter 4: Biogeochemical Cycles

Total elements: 5

Biogeochemical Cycles Dashboard

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Trace the movement of water through the hydrologic cycle and identify key processes....

Interconnected Biogeochemical Cycles

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Identify linkages between the carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water cycles and explain how disrupting one affects others....

Phosphorus Runoff and Eutrophication

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Predict the downstream effects of excess phosphorus input on aquatic ecosystems....

The Carbon Cycle

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Distinguish fast and slow carbon fluxes and predict how changes in one flux affect atmospheric CO2....

The Nitrogen Cycle

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Trace nitrogen through fixation, nitrification, assimilation, and denitrification, identifying the organisms involved at each step....

Chapter 5: Species Interactions

Total elements: 4

Coevolution Arms Race

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Predict how reciprocal selection pressures drive trait escalation in coevolving species....

Invasive Species Impact Network

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Assess how the introduction of an invasive species cascades through a native food web....

Predator-Prey Population Dynamics

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 7
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Model predator-prey oscillations and predict how changing parameters affects population dynamics....

Resource Partitioning in Warblers

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Compare how different species partition resources within a shared habitat to reduce interspecific competition....

Chapter 6: Biodiversity And Services

Total elements: 5

Biodiversity Levels Pyramid

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will classify the three levels of biodiversity and give examples of each....

Ecological Succession Stages

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will compare primary and secondary succession by manipulating a timeline that shows community changes over time....

Ecosystem Services Web

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students will assess the interconnections among the four categories of ecosystem services and predict consequences of losing specific services....

Island Biogeography Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 5
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students will predict how island size and distance from mainland affect species richness....

Tolerance Range Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will demonstrate how changes in environmental conditions affect organism survival by manipulating tolerance curves....

Chapter 7: Population Ecology

Total elements: 4

Age Structure Diagram Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will interpret age structure diagrams to predict future population trends for different countries....

Demographic Transition Model

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will explain how birth rates, death rates, and total population change through the four stages of demographic transition....

Population Growth Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students will model exponential and logistic population growth by adjusting parameters and observing resulting curves....

Survivorship Curve Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will compare the three survivorship curve types and match real species to each pattern....

Chapter 8: Earth Systems

Total elements: 4

Global Wind and Convection Cell Model

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will describe how convection cells, the Coriolis effect, and global wind patterns interact to create Earth's major climate zones....

Rain Shadow Effect Visualizer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will explain how mountain ranges create wet and dry climate zones through the rain shadow effect....

Soil Horizons and Texture Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 5
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will classify soil types using the texture triangle and identify soil horizons in a profile diagram....

Solar Radiation and Albedo Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students will calculate the net energy absorbed by different surfaces and predict how albedo changes affect local temperature....

Chapter 9: Sustainability And Energy

Total elements: 5

Cogeneration System Flow

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 5
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students trace energy flow through a cogeneration system and compare total efficiency to conventional separate generation....

Energy Source Comparison Dashboard

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students compare energy sources across multiple criteria to evaluate trade-offs....

Global Energy Mix Scenario Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students design an energy portfolio that meets demand constraints while minimizing ecological footprint....

Radioactive Decay Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students visualize exponential decay and predict remaining radioactivity after multiple half-lives....

Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Energy Flow

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students compare renewable and nonrenewable energy pathways from source to end use....

Chapter 10: Land And Water Use

Total elements: 4

Integrated Pest Management Decision Flowchart

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Unknown
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students apply IPM decision-making by following the hierarchy of pest control strategies....

Monoculture vs. Polyculture Ecosystem Comparison

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students compare the ecological resilience of monoculture and polyculture systems under stress....

Soil Health Comparison: Tillage Methods

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students evaluate the long-term effects of conventional tillage vs. no-till farming on soil health indicators....

Urban Heat Island Profile

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students analyze how urban land cover drives temperature differences between cities and surrounding areas....

Chapter 11: Atmospheric Pollution

Total elements: 4

Acid Rain Formation and Impact Pathway

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students trace the pathway from SO2 and NOx emissions through atmospheric chemistry to acid deposition and ecological damage....

Criteria Air Pollutants Source-to-Impact Tracker

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students trace each criteria air pollutant from its source through atmospheric chemistry to its health and environmental impacts....

Thermal Inversion Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 7
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students explain how thermal inversions trap pollutants near the ground by comparing normal and inverted atmospheric temperature profiles....
  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Unknown
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students assess the effectiveness of the Clean Air Act by analyzing emission trends for all six criteria pollutants alongside economic indicators....

Chapter 12: Water And Land Pollution

Total elements: 5

Biomagnification Through a Food Web

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Compare pollutant concentrations across trophic levels and explain why top predators are most affected...

Eutrophication Cascade

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Trace the step-by-step cascade from nutrient input to dead zone formation...

Interactive Dose-Response Curve Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Interpret dose-response curves to identify LD50 values and threshold effects...

Pollutant Pathways Map

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Trace how different pollutants move through environmental pathways from source to receptor...

Waste Management Decision Flowchart

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Prioritize waste management strategies using the waste hierarchy and evaluate trade-offs...

Chapter 13: Systems Thinking

Total elements: 5

Adaptive Management Cycle

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Implement the adaptive management cycle for an ecological management scenario...

Emergence Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Explain how complex system-level patterns emerge from simple individual rules...

Feedback Loop Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Very Hard
  • Learning Objective: Differentiate between reinforcing and balancing feedback loops and predict their effects on system behavior...

Interactive Stock and Flow Sandbox

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Construct a stock and flow diagram for a simple ecological system and predict how the stock changes over time...

Resilience Ball-in-Basin Model

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Predict when a system will undergo a regime shift based on disturbance magnitude and resilience...

Chapter 14: Scientific Literacy

Total elements: 5

Confidence Interval Visualizer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Interpret confidence intervals and margin of error in environmental measurements...

Correlation vs. Causation Challenge

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Distinguish between correlation and causation in environmental data and identify confounding variables...

Sample Size Effect on Reliability

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Compare the reliability of conclusions drawn from small versus large sample sizes...

Science's Quality Control Pipeline

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Describe the steps from initial research through peer review, publication, and replication to scientific consensus...

Source Credibility Evaluator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Evaluate the credibility of environmental science claims by assessing source quality, methodology, and potential bias...

Chapter 15: Global Climate Change

Total elements: 6

Climate Feedback Loops

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students trace how positive feedback loops in the climate system (ice-albedo, permafrost methane, water vapor) amplify warming....

Climate Solutions Pathway

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students assess the relative impact of different climate solutions and explain how mitigation and adaptation strategies work together....

ENSO Cycle Interactive

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students explain how trade winds, ocean temperatures, and atmospheric circulation interact during El Niño and La Niña phases....

Greenhouse Effect Energy Balance

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students demonstrate how increasing greenhouse gas concentrations shift Earth's energy balance and raise surface temperatures....

Ocean Impacts Dashboard

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students compare trends in ocean temperature, pH, sea level, and coral bleaching events over time and identify correlations....

Tipping Points Explorer

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 5
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students predict how increasing global temperature activates successive tipping points and explain why the system response is nonlinear....

Chapter 16: Biodiversity Loss And Policy

Total elements: 4

Carbon Pricing Comparison

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 8
  • Difficulty: Very Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students compare the mechanisms, advantages, and limitations of carbon tax and cap-and-trade systems....

Conservation Policy Timeline

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 1
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students summarize the evolution of conservation policy from national laws to international agreements and explain how each policy addresses specific ...

HIPPO Threat Interaction Web

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 3
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students differentiate between the five HIPPO threats and analyze how they interact to amplify species vulnerability....

Habitat Fragmentation Simulator

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 6
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students demonstrate how fragmentation reduces effective habitat area and isolates populations, leading to local extinctions....

Chapter 17: Evaluating Environmental Claims

Total elements: 5

Citizen Science Project Finder

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 0
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students select appropriate citizen science projects based on their interests, location, and available resources....

Cognitive Bias Detective

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students detect cognitive biases and logical fallacies in environmental arguments and explain how each distorts reasoning....

Environmental Justice Mapping Tool

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 4
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Learning Objective: Students correlate the locations of environmental hazards with demographic data to identify patterns of environmental injustice....

Fact-Checking Workflow

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Microsim
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Learning Objective: Students execute a systematic fact-checking workflow when presented with an environmental claim, reaching an evidence-based conclusion....

Information Ecosystem Flow

  • Status: Specified
  • Type: Diagram
  • Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
  • UI Elements: 2
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Learning Objective: Students trace how environmental claims flow from original sources through media, algorithms, and social sharing, identifying where distortion occurs ...