BeeVisit

• Author: Barbara Thomson James Thomson
• Subject: Science and Technology
• Institution Name: BioQUEST
• Collection: BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
• Grade Level: Post-secondary

• Abstract: BeeVisit enables students to evaluate the relative contributions of different pollinator species to a plant's reproductive success through an interactive model of pollen transfer.
  
  The model tracks a plant's presentation of pollen through time; pollen may be presented gradually or all at once, and the program lets you choose from a family of power curves to model the shape of the cumulative pollen presentation curve over a set number of time intervals (usually 100). Then, 'bees' of 1, 2, or 3 types are allowed to visit the plant.
  
  You specify the expected number and type of visits; this sets the probability of a visit occurring during each interval, and visits occur stochastically according to these probabilities.

• Languages: English
• Material Types: Teaching and Learning Strategies
• Media Formats: Graphics/Photos, Other, Text/HTML, Downloadable docs
• Technical Requirements: Windows 2000|Windows 98

• Conditions of Use: Custom License