Seals vs. Humans

In this final unit of our STEAM Population class, we learned more about the relationships between species, as well as new ways to calculate sequences of numbers. We also learned more about specifically how humans and animals affect each other. Most of the time, the humans negatively affect the animals, while the animals don't do much of anything to the humans. It kind of goes to show that we're slowly ruining the Earth as we develop our own society and way of living. For this Action Project, we were tasked with creating our own 1-2 minute video about the relationship between our researched animal and humans. I chose to research Harbor seals. Below is my video that I created for this Action Project.


WH, Population Video, 2018

I also had to do some calculations to find what the human population would have looked like over those ten years. Below are the results of those calculations. Our population has been rising drastically over the last few years. We're eventually going to reach a point where we use up all the resources on our planet.
6,088,571,383 humans in 2000
6,858,584,755 humans 2010
Increase over those years: +770,013,372
Increase per year: +77,001,337

Both populations are rising at a geometric rate, since if they were going up at a arithmetic way they would be going up the same amount every year. Geometric increase means they're multiplying every year, by a small amount.

In conclusion, this project felt rushed to me. We didn't have much time for this unit (it started 2 weeks before the end of the term), so I feel like the whole experience was rushed. Nonetheless, this project wasn't too hard, because of my past research this semester on Harbor seals, but it would have been nice to have more time to include more into the project.

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