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Shape of Change Stock & Flows
Spring 2008 Newsletter

(Updated 22-May-2008 )
 
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The Shape of Change Lessons
All of the lessons in this book are also available for download below. However, we find that the layout and the compilation of all the lessons in the book make them more useable.
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Shape of Change: Do You Want Fries with That?
Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Students play a game in which their movements around the room depend on the movements of other players [New for 2008]
  PDF (137 K)
Shape of Change: In and Out Game
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." A simple activity that introduces and reinforces the understanding of change over time.
  PDF (38 K)
Shape of Change: Infection Game
  Author(s):
Rob Quden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Students play a game that simulates the spread of an epidemic.
  PDF (49 K)
Shape of Change: It's Cool
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Students engage in the scientific method as they measure, record, and graph the changing temperature of a cooling cup of boiling water.
  PDF (35 K)
Shape of Change: KeystoneSpecies in an Ecosystem--Using Connnection Circles to Tell the Story
Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Students read a chapter from a skillfully written science book and use connection circles to unravel a mystery of nature. [New for 2008]
  PDF (59 K)
Shape of Change: Making Friends
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." A non-competitive tagging game, wherein students track the rate of growth of friendship and discover the effect of rates of growth
  PDF (38 K)
Shape of Change: The Connection Game
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Students play a game in which their movements around the room depend on the movements of other players
  PDF (25 K)
Shape of Change: The Mammoth Game
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Teams of students play a dice and graphing game to track the population growth and decline of a herd of twenty mammoths
  PDF (43 K)
Shape of Change: The Rainforest Game
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." In this simulation game, students act out the lives of trees, following different planting and harvesting policies.
  PDF (48 K)
Shape of Change: The Tree Game
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." Students explore what happens to the number of trees in a forest over time as a forester plants and harvests each year.
  PDF (32 K)
Shape of Change: The Tree Game Puzzle
  Author(s):
Rob Quaden And Alan Ticotsky With Deb Lyneis		 Subject:
Cross-Curricular		  
  From "The Shape of Change." This puzzle is an extension of the Tree Game. After playing the Tree Game, students explore what happens to the number of trees in a forest following a variety of planting and harvesting policies.
  PDF (27 K)
 

 

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