| Fish Banks Packet |
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Author(s):
System Dynamics in Education Project |
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Cross-Curricular |
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A curriculum to use with Fish Banks, Ltd., a simulation game developed and marketed by Dennis Meadows. Includes: a) Renewable Resource Depletion: A Systems Approach to the Tragedy of the Commons (Matthew C. Halbower). Supplemental materials for Fish Banks, Ltd. This paper is designed to accompany the Fish Banks game. It explains system concepts, proposes exercises, and describes the Fish Banks model. Requires a Macintosh computer and STELLA software. b) The Tragedy of the Commons (Garret Hardin). A discussion of the problems in the use of common resources. (Paper only: c) Fishing in the News. Assorted newspaper clippings to indicate the relevance of Fish Banks for today's fishing industry.)
Complex Systems Connection: Cause within System.
Locally rational choices (such as trying to maximize your own catch of fish) can lead to problems for everyone when the resource disappears. A "Tragedy of the Commons" simulation such as Fish Banks can help students to understand that the structure of a system gives rise to the observed behavior pattern. It does no good to place blame on others when actors in the system are causing their own problems! |
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| FishBanks Simulation Guide |
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Author(s):
Anne laVigne |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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FishBanks is an online multi-user simulation to explore the management of a marine fishery. The simulation, created through MIT, is available for educators to use at no cost. Students experience the difficulties of managing a renewable resource, seeing how short-term goals can interfere with long-term success. The lesson includes student handouts, introduction and debriefing slideshows, and a technical guide. |
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| Getting Started with Behavior Over Time Graphs: Four Curriculum Examples |
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Author(s):
Gayle Richardson |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Prepared with the support of the Gordon Stanley Brown Fund. A presentation of how BOTG's are used in a 5th grade curriculum. Although the paper focuses on fifth grade language arts and social studies lessons, its curriculum approach and the BOTG instructions apply across all curriculum areas and all grade levels. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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