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CLE Books: The Shape of Change Lessons
Authors: Rob Quaden and Alan Ticotsky with Deb Lyneis
All of the lessons in this book
are available for download (pdf format) below. We find that
the layout and the compilation of all the lessons in the book
make them more useable.
Purchase "The
Shape of Change"
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| Shape of Change (Lesson 1): In and Out Game, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change" including "The Shape of Change: Stocks and Flows." A simple activity that introduces and reinforces the understanding of change over time, including the use of stock/flow diagrams that show why the change happens. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 2): Making Friends, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." A non-competitive tagging game, wherein students track the rate of growth of friendship and discover the effect of rates of growth, including showing why change occurs by means of stock/flow diagrams. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 3): The Mammoth Game, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." Teams of students play a dice and graphing game to track the population growth and decline of a herd of twenty mammoths, including learning why change occurs by means of stock/flow diagrams. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 4): It's Cool, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." Students engage in the scientific method as they measure, record, and graph the changing temperature of a cooling cup of boiling water, learning why the change happens with the use of stock/flow diagrams. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 5): The Infection Game, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." Students play a game that simulates the spread of an epidemic. The included Infection Game stock/flow map combines all the elements that were used in the previous lessons. Students apply all that they have learned about behavior over time graphs, stocks and flows, and reinforcing and balancing feedback loops to understand how and why the infection spread among them. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 6): The Tree Game, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." Students explore what happens to the number of trees in a forest over time as a forester plants and harvests each year. With the included Stocks and Flows lesson, they gain experience anticipating and observing how a stock changes with different inflow and outflow rates. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 7): The Tree Game Puzzle, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." This puzzle is an extension of the Tree Game. After playing the Tree Game, students explore what happens to the number of trees in a forest following a variety of planting and harvesting policies. In the Stocks and Flows lesson, students begin to learn to clarify their thinking, and experience the power of making stock/flow maps. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 8): The Rainforest Game, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." In this simulation game, students act out the lives of trees, following different planting and harvesting policies. Students may be surprised to learn that, while the game seems very active, the stock/flow map of the game is quite basic. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 9): The Connection Game, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." Students play a game in which their movements around the room depend on the movements of other players. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 10): Do You Want Fries With That? Learning about Connection Circles, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." In this lesson, students use connection circles to examine an article about the health risks associated with rising French fry consumption. As in previous lessons, they identify what is changing and describe how it is changing, but in this lesson they begin to think about why it is changing, as they create feedback loops. |
| Shape of Change (Lesson 11): Keystone Species in an Ecosystem--Using Connnection Circles to Tell the Story, including Stocks and Flows |
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From "The Shape of Change." Students read a chapter from a skillfully written science book and use connection circles to unravel a mystery of nature. In the Stocks and Flows lesson, students will build the stock/flow map from the ground up. |
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