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Organization: North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Grade Band: Algebra I
Standard Goal: The learner will perform operations with numbers and expressions to solve problems.
 No expectation given for this objective. 
Chaos Lesson: Students learn about the concepts and applications of chaos.
Properties of Fractals Lesson: A capstone lesson to allow students to build a working definition of fractal.
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A Better Fire!!
Activity: Students run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Parameters: Forest density, wind direction, size of forest.
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Directable Fire!!
Activity: Run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Parameters: Probability that a tree will set fire to each of its eight neighbors.
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Rabbits and Wolves
Activity: Experiment with a simple ecosystem consisting of grass, rabbits, and wolves, learning about probabilities, chaos, and simulation.
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