| Learning to Connect the Dots: Developing Children's Systems Literacy |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney |
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Why K12 SD |
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How can can adults nurture children's capacity to "connect the dots" through everyday conversations and activities? How can educators build an environment that leads children to see the patterns that make a difference? In this article, educator and writer Linda Booth Sweeney points out that thinking about systems means paying attention to the interrelationships, patterns, and dynamics that surround us - and that children are naturally attuned to this. In cultivating systems literacy, you build upon this natural understanding to help promote this integrated way of thinking for the children in your life. |
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Link to the simulation: http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1167
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| It All Comes Down to Dirt: Learning while Playing with the "Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pastures" Playkit |
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Cross-Curricular |
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Sharing a learning experience using the "Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pastures" playkit |
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| Interdisciplinary Evaluation Techniques Using System Dynamics (D-4320-1) |
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Author(s):
Tad T. Sudnick |
Subject:
Implementation |
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This paper discusses how the use of STELLA models in a high school science class demands interdisciplinary skills and content, and the importance of evaluating them. |
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| Infection Game For Primary Students (Grades K-3) |
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Author(s):
Anne LaVigne, & Lindsey Buckler |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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This lesson is similar to the “The Infection Game” lesson in The Shape of Change. The activity rules are modified for younger children who do not know the concept of multiplication. The handouts and debrief questions are aimed at younger students. In addition, a simple online simulation is available as an extension. Students explore what happens to the number of people “infected” over time. Infections can include the spread of an illness, the spread of a good idea, or the spread of kindness. |
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Link to the simulation: http://www.clexchange.org/curriculum/shapeofchange/soc_5_Infection.asp
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| I in Inflation App Mini-Lesson |
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Author(s):
Anne LaVigne |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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"‘I’ in Inflation" is a free, engaging, easy-to-use app for students
and others to explore the relationships among wages, inflation,
and a potential gap in spending power over time. |
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| How much oil is left? |
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Author(s):
Chris Soderquist |
Subject:
Video |
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This video is a tour of an online simulation tool anyone can use to explore assumptions about how long the current untapped supply of oil will last. The URL for that lab is:
http://forio.com/broadcast/netsim/net...
Watch in high resolution! |
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Link to the file: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyrnQj03s4
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| How Is This Similar to That? The skill of recognizing parallel dynamic structures on center stage |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney |
Subject:
Research |
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This article is intended to put systems educators' daily work in context for educational researchers and to highlight a central skill for schools seeking to teach students to see, understand, and ultimately affect the systems around them. |
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| History and Biology of Smallpox: A General Introduction to the Epidemic Spread of Disease |
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Author(s):
John Heinbokel, & Jeff Potash |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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This series of case-studies developed by the Waters Center for System Dynamics examines the dynamics and impacts of such epidemics primarily through the lens of one specific disease --smallpox.
Complex Systems Connection: Separate Cause and Effect.
For some illness/disease, symptoms appear long after initial infection. Sometimes people travel great distance while infected because they are unaware of the infection. Medical "detectives" faced with an epidemic must understand how the infection spreads and how quickly. Delays in the system make this more difficult. |
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| Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pastures: Making Connections at Drumlin Farm and Beyond |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Renata Pomponi |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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This "Making Connections Playkit" has been created yo help students think deliberately about living systems in a farm setting and to give students an organizing framework to take home and apply in other contexts. |
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| Getting Started with System Thinking in the Primary Grades |
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Author(s):
Sharon Coffin |
Subject:
Implementation |
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From Maumee Valley Country Day School. Sharon Coffin's account of her start in teaching systems thinking and some curricula she developed to teach the concepts to the primary grades. |
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