| Tracing Connections: Voices of Systems Thinkers published by isee systems and The Creative Learning Exchange |
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The book collects the experiences and thoughts of practitioners from education, business, public policy, and research to present its powerful applicability of Systems Thinking.
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school in Tucson (DVD
& Booklet) By James Morrison, booklet
written by The Creative Learning Exchange |
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A longitudinal
study of systems thinking in K-12 Education.
Thirteen years ago, middle school students
and their faculty in Tucson, AZ, pioneered
a revolutionary new approach to learning—using
Systems Thinking tools to engage in collaborative,
real-world problem solving that honed their
critical thinking skills. We have the rare
opportunity to revisit some of them thirteen
years later and hear how this learner-centered
approach transformed their lives.
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| The
Shape of Change By
Rob Quaden and Alan Ticotsky |
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A
key selection of introductory and intermediate
lessons that focus on using systems thinking
to teach critical thinking. Written by a team
of master teacher mentors.
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| The
Shape of Change with Stocks and Flows By
Rob Quaden and Alan Ticotsky with Debra
Lyneis |
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With The Shape
of Change: Stocks and Flows students build
on the earlier lessons to understand why the
changes occurred. Why did doubling cause the
number of friends to grow exponentially? Why
did the mammoths go extinct? Why did the boiling
water cool to room temperature?
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| Lessons
in Mathematics: A Dynamic Approach By
Diana Fisher |
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Mathematics is tough-sledding for many.
The difficulty is that most students fail
to appreciate that mathematics is "just
a language." It happens to be a very
rigorous language, one with very little ambiguity
associated with its symbols. It's also a
very abstract one. And it's primarily the
latter attribute, abstractness, which causes
many students to falter. This book focuses
on making the abstractness more concrete
with interesting and fun lessons. It uses
STELLA software's icon-based, non-abstract
language to structure problems in ways
that students can easily visualize. Students
use the software's simulation
capabilities to explore solutions to the
problems. Diana's years of teaching experience
ensure that her lessons are
right-out-of-the-box-ready
for you to use in your classroom today.
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Modeling Dynamic Systems: Lessons for a
First Course By Diana Fisher |
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This book provides
a set of tools that enable educators at the
secondary
and college levels to teach a one-semester
or one-year course in System Dynamics. Developed
for beginning modelers, the lessons contained
in this book can be used for a core curriculum
or for independent study. Course materials
meet National Science Education Standards (NSES)
and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM) standards and are out-of-the-box ready
for use in your classroom today.
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| The
Systems Thinking Playbook By
Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows |
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The Systems
Thinking Playbook enables teachers to brief,
facilitate, and debrief
30 exercises for groups of 5-500. It is accompanied
by a two-hour video on DVD
to illustrate good practice in introducing
and facilitating each of the games.
The exercises are brief, 5-20 minutes for each.
They illustrate basic concepts
of paradigms, structure, and dynamics. Each
chapter contains easy-to-follow
directions for the trainer specifying the purpose,
outcomes, context,
resources, time, space, equipment, set-up,
and ideal number of participants.
Suitable for all ages.
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| Thinking in Systems By
Donella Meadows Edited by Diana Wright |
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Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.
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| When
a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids
Explore Interconnections in Our World Through
Favorite Stories By Linda Booth Sweeney |
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Kids face all
sorts of situations throughout their lives
that demand their understanding and problem-solving
skills. As parents and educators, we want to
help them understand why troubling things happen,
and then figure out what they can do about
them. One way to help our children develop
such life skills is to share ideas from the
field of systems thinking. This groundbreaking
new book can show you how! This powerful resource
will help you engage children in a fascinating
and stimulating world--in an imaginative, playful,
and memorable way.
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