 Our local elementary school hosted a Getting to Green community event. My friend, Edie, an Audubon educator and farmer, and I entertained the little ones while their parents listened to a variety of speakers talk about "sustainable" consumerism.
Edie brought Clucky, one of her chickens. I brought a Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pastures
Playkit. Each child had a chance to feed and hold the chicken. I showed them pictures
of a chicken coop at Drumlin Farm, a local Audubon site. We laid out playing cards with pictures of chickens, cows, grass, manure, insects, decomposing soil, eggs, people, the sun, and more, and gave everyone a handful of wikki stix, bend-able sticks made from hand-knitting yarn enhanced with non-toxic wax. We were ready to play.
When the children looked closely at the mobile coop photos, they could see that there was something different about this coop: It had wheels!
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| Diana Fisher receives award from John Sterman |
At a recent International meeting in Washington, D.C., the System Dynamics Society presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to , a high school mathematics teacher from Portland, Oregon. It is only the second time, in the 35-year history of the society, that this award has been bestowed.
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The Babson conference, by far, was the single most useful professional development to help us incorporate ST/SD into our classrooms.
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We asked our 2010 conference scholarship recipients to reflect on their experiences
with system dynamics in K-12 education, and to send us a written report on how they used ST/SD during the year. The reports are inspiring and fun to read. We hope they stimulate discussion and learning.
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