Teaching Guide: Energy Dynamics and Net Primary Productivity Virtual Lab
This teaching guide helps educators to integrate the Energy Dynamics Net Primary Productivity Virtual Lab simulation into an advanced high school biology lesson. Students investigate how producers capture, use, and store energy by measuring biomass changes and analyzing data to explain how energy becomes available for ecosystems.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- energy dynamics
- trophic level
- producer
- primary productivity
- trophic pyramid
- population
- 10% rule
- autotroph
- heterotroph
- biomass
- NPP
- first law of thermodynamics
- second law of thermodynamics
- food chain
- HS-LS2-4
- LS2.B