STELLA SIMULATION

NUR FATIN INSYIRAH BINTI MOHAMED

PUAID
D20161073919
SITI NORLIYANA BINTI MOHD TASRIB
D20161073940

What is Stella simulation?

Stella is a visual programming language for system
dynamics modelling.
Its provide endless opportunities to explore by knowing
what and watching what happens, inspiring the exciting
moments of learning for students.
Stella models also allow you to communicate how a
system works and know what goes in, how the system is
impacted and what are the outcomes.
Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world
process or system over time
Simulation is used in many contexts, such as simulation of
technology for performance optimization, safety
engineering, testing, training, education, and video games.

TITLE : PREY AND PREDATOR

BETWEEN LYNX AND HARE

LYNX

HARE

OBJECTIVES:
To conduct an experiment using STELLA Software.
To know how to make the stimulation using STELLA
Software.
To study how to integrate STELLA in teaching and
learning process.
To investigate how the number of predators affects
the number of prey and vice versa.

GRAPH 1

It shows that the number of lynx and hares is stable throughout the years. This means that
there is no environmental complexility in the ecosystem. The number of lynx is balance with
the number of hare. The birth rate of hares can afford the needed from lynx. That is why from
the graph we can see that the interaction between the predator and prey is constant
throughout the year. There is no increasing or decreasing number for both predator and prey.

GRAPH 2

It shows that the size of 1 time lynx harvest is increasing as the number of hares increase. At
the beginning of the graph, the lynx is drop a little bit as the hares constant. This is because
when the number of hares becomes constant for such a long time, the number of lynx will
decrease because there is no food for them. If the food source decreases, the competition
between predators will become tight. There is no increasing in food source so the predator will
die thus the shows the decreasing in number. The following pattern shows that the increasing of
hares will increase the total number of lynx.

GRAPH 3

Compared to graph 2 the number of both prey (hares) and predator (predator) is slightly
increase. The concept is still same as is mention at graph 2.

GRAPH 4

Graph 4 also shows the same pattern with tremendously increasing number of both lynx and hares.
This shows that the lynx have enough food supply from the increasing number of hare.

conclusion

In our opinion, the simulation is very important and

helps a lot in education system in Malaysia. This is
because it being a replacement model for real world
experiences and help teachers teach the students in
easy way.
Teachers can do demonstration on how to use the
model in class and students can apply the software
models by themselves.
Indirectly, students should be able to understand well
about the experiments because they can experience
themselves. Students also can be more open minded
and think outside the box.