Computational Thinking in Science and Math

Using Blocks to Model Ecosystems

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In this unit, you will build and explore computational models of living systems. A special type of scientists called computational biologists, use such kind of computational models to study biological systems.

This units focuses on prey-predator interactions in an ecosystem. It uses two computational modeling environments - NetTango and NetLogo.

NetTango is a block-based coding environment, whereas NetLogo is text-based coding environment.

As you spend your time learning about how to construct computational models of prey-predator ecosystems, you will learn a bit about coding using blocks as well as text.