A Look at Feed the Dingo and Desert Ecosystem Dynamics
Game Metadata Title: Feed the Dingo Designer/Developer: PBS Kids Platform: Browser-based (PBS Kids website) High-Level Instructional Goal: Feed the Dingo is designed to teach players about maintaining desert ecosystem balance by managing species populations and resources over a 12-day cycle. Players learn through adjusting resource allocation (bubbles) and observing the resulting health of various species. Game Link: Feed the Dingo Educational Goals Feed the Dingo is designed to teach players about the fundamentals of ecosystem management by emphasizing the importance of species diversity, food chain dependencies, and resource allocation in a desert environment. By having players add a fixed number of bubbles each day to support various species, the game aims to show that different organisms play a role in maintaining a balanced ecosystem. Players learn that neglecting certain species, such as by adding only plants, results in a lower score b...