Equipment:

Computers, spreadsheet application and Australian Wildlife Cam data.

Objective:

To manipulate and experiment with data.

Procedure:

Use spreadsheeting software, such as Microsoft Excel, to manipulate and experiment with your data. Experiment with your data and creating different types of graphs. Which graph makes it easier to interpret your data?

Keep a graph of your original data. Manipulate the data according to the following scenarios.

Sugar Gliders

1. If the Sugar Gliders had fleas
2. If there was a goanna climbing a tree
3. If there were young in the nest.

Bullants

1. If a centipede dies at the the entrance to the ants' nest
2. A local river rises and floods the ants' nest
3. An echidna digs into the ants' nest

Kookaburra

1. A bushfire sweeps through the Sanctuary
2. A goanna climbs the tree
3. Hot day and a cold day

Bats

1. Fleas
2. Ten bats in the nest
3. Ants invade the nestbox
4. Howling wind
5. Goanna climbs the tree