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Understanding a Little Bit About How Computer Models Work

Although we are not working directly on the spread of COVID-19 in neighborhoods, the above program is a computational model and is similar to what we will be using to create our model for research. This is a great practice model and a wonderful way to experiment with a computational model.  So, just for now, imagine that you are observing a neighborhood using a drone that is hovering over the roof tops. Each green patch represents a house. A blue patch represents a house with positive COVID-19. 

Play around with the model.  Try to make some observations of what is happening.

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Write down two things you noticed about the model.

 Change the Density of the houses to 30%.  What happens to the neighborhood when the model stops running? How many ticks did the model go through before it stopped and why do you think it stopped at this number of ticks? 

SAQ:   What is a tick? What evidence did you use to create your definition? 

Now change the Density of the houses to 60%.  What do you notice after 100 ticks?

SAQ: Based on what you observed, make a statement about the effect of house density in a pandemic.

Notes

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