| The Shape of Change: Stocks and Flows |
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Author(s):
Rob Quaden, Alan Ticotsky, & Debra Lyneis |
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Cross-Curricular |
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This book builds on lessons developed in "The Shape of Change," Students learn why things change, using stock/flow diagrams as a tool to give them a way to visually represent and examine the causes of change.
Complex Systems Connection: Some lessons in the Shape of Change series can be used to illustrate specific characteristics of complex systems. Please see individual lessons for more information. |
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Link to the file: http://www.clexchange.org/shapeofchange/
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| The Shape of Change Models |
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Author(s):
Jeff Potash, & John Heinbokel |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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These are the models that accompany The Shape of Change lessons.
Complex Systems Connection: Some lessons in the Shape of Change series can be used to illustrate specific characteristics of complex systems. Please see individual lessons for more information. |
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| The Shape of Change |
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Author(s):
Rob Quaden, Alan Ticotsky, & Debra Lyneis |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Eleven hands-on lessons/activities that promote critical thinking, teamwork and dialogue.
Complex Systems Connection: Some lessons in the Shape of Change series can be used to illustrate specific characteristics of complex systems. Please see individual lessons for more information. |
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Link to the file: http://www.clexchange.org/cleproducts/shapeofchange.asp
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| The Mammoth Extinction Game |
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Author(s):
Gene Stamell, A Ticotsky, & R Quaden |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Prepared with the support of the Gordon Stanley Brown Fund. In this interdisciplinary science, math, and social studies lesson, third graders examine how the wooly mammoth became extinct about 11,000 years ago. With a game and a hands-on model they learn about graphing, probability anda exponential decay in math, and they are intorduced to system dynamics modeling as a useful tool for looking at problems. |
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| The Credit Card Model (D-4683) |
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Author(s):
Manas Ratha |
Subject:
System Dynamics |
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From SDEP. This paper describes a simple system of purchasing with a credit card. The reader is led through the steps of building a system dynamics model by building and simulating the model along with the paper. From Road Maps 9.
Complex Systems Connection: hort and Long Term Conflicts. Managing money, in personal finances or in running a business, often involves setting both short-term and long-term goals. Sometimes goals are in conflict between these timeframes, such as spending now versus saving/investing for future financial well-being. This credit card model shows how future quality of life is reduced by spending over one's means through the use of credit cards. |
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| Teenagers with Global Control |
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Author(s):
Teresa F. Hazel, & Timothy Joy |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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From CC-STADUS. After reading "Fahrenheit 451", students inherit a nation out of control with respect to its population and resources and have a cyber-century to salvage it. This model hails from "The Rulers" packet, with a few changes in the model and presentation. It begins with a basic population model, and so it works well for inexperienced STELLA users, teachers as well as students. It then expands through three permutations, and so do the curricular possibilities. |
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| Teaching Humanities Using Systems Tools |
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Author(s):
Jeff Potash, Jason O'Neil-Willoughby, & Beth Olesen |
Subject:
Conference |
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In this workshop, we will explore how different system tools offers opportunities for students to look for patterns in human history and to ask deeper and more thoughtful questions relating to the causes and connections underlying these patterns. Building systems structures (causal loops, connection circles, models) uniquely empowers students to actively explore “what ifs” in ways that bridge past, present, and future. |
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| Teaching a Conventional Class (Global Studies) in An Unconventional Manner Using STELLA |
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Author(s):
Scott Guthrie, & Megs Patton |
Subject:
Project Histories |
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From CC-STADUS/CC-SUSTAIN. Presented at the 16th Internaitonal Conference of the System Dynamics Society in Quebec '98. The description of the first year of a Global Studies course using STELLA, with the basic outline of the course and a brief evaluation. |
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| Systems Tools in High School: Interdisciplinary Learning in a Science Classroom |
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Author(s):
Alan Ticotsky |
Subject:
Implementation |
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A summary of how one teacher teaches across the curriculum. Chris DiCarlo teaches high school classes in several different disciplines at Innovation Academy Charter School (IACS). While technically in the science and math departments, he has taught physics, pre-calculus, robotics, environmental systems, financial literacy... and that's just in the past two years! The threads that tie together all of Chris's classes are a tightly woven combination of his own dynamic teaching style and the learning environment at IACS.
Chris worked with IACS high school principal, Greg Orpen, to design a one-semester elective systems course for Fall 2012. "Environmental Systems and Computer Modeling" was designed to provide students with an overview of the Earth's physical systems and how human activity affects those systems.
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| Students Taking a Systems Approach to Drinking and Driving |
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Author(s):
Stephany Yerger |
Subject:
Social Studies |
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From CC-STADUS. A member of the class of 1999 at La Salle High School reports on the project she and classmates undertook to create a tool for hands-on alcohol education using STELLA. Model included. |
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