| Population Dynamics, Part D: Connecting Past, Present and Future, Part D:America's Baby Boom and Global Youth Bulges |
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Author(s):
Jeffrey Potash, & Jennifer Andersen |
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The Population Dynamics series are designed to supplement existing high school history curricula and be largely self-directed by students outside of class time. The lessons are intended to introduce students to a variety of systems tools (behavior-over-time graphs, stock/flow maps, models/simulations) alongside primary and secondary historical resources. Part D focuses on America's baby boom and global youth bulges.
Complex Systems Connection: Separate Cause and Effect. Baby booms and youth bulges play out over time. The impacts of population dynamics may cause changes to the environment and social systems that will be felt over several generations. It is difficult to predict the effects of issues that are decades away, and even harder to implement policies that will correct for them. Baby booms and youth bulges can create push factors that cause particular age groups to migrate to new countries. Young or old, people respond to shrinking opportunities by looking outside national borders. One country's youth bulge may become another region's immigration influx.
Cause within System. The decision to have a child is very personal, but common factors are often present (age, finances). These factors also affect the rate at which people die, leave (emigrate) or come to a new area (immigrate). This demographic system generates its own behavior. The particular trajectory of population growth or decline is a consequence of these various flows of people.
Shifting Burden. Humanitarian aid is widely provided to nations in need. When aid creates a dependence between the giver and receiver, the ability of the receiving country to meet its own needs may be compromised. Over time the "burden" of providing for a country's citizens may be transferred to the intervener - the country or countries providing the aid. |
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Link to the file: http://clexchange.org/curriculum/complexsystems/populationdynamics/popdynD.asp
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| Population Planner App - Mini Lesson |
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Author(s):
Anne LaVigne |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Population Planner is a free, engaging, easy-to-use app for students and others to explore how populations can grow or decline over time.
http://www.clexchange.org/curriculum/apps/ Students can change the initial population, death rate, and birth rate to see what happens over 100 years. |
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| Portrait Of A Civilization. A Study of Resource Use and Sustainability- STELLA Model and Simulation Game |
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Author(s):
Alison Yahna, & Doug Girod |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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From CC-STADUS. Edited by Andrew Jonca and Ron Zaraza. The story of the prosperity and collapse of Mahenjo Daro and its application to our modern fossil-fuel civilization. |
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| Pre-College Student Understanding of Accumulations: An Experiment at a WPI Summer Workshop for Students |
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Author(s):
Diana Fisher, Chris DiCarlo, Alan Ticotsky, & Rob Quaden |
Subject:
System Dynamics |
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This paper presents the results of a pre- and post-test assessment given to 18 students ages 14 to 17 years who participated in a WPI Sustainability Workshop in the summer of 2014, where systems thinking and system dynamics modeling were the primary tools used to study environmental issues. The pre- and post-test were designed to assess the students' ability to determine simple dynamic behavior of phenomenon when the rate of change of the phenomenon was given in text, pictorial, or graphical form. The assessment determined that students have a reasonably robust intuitive ability to determine simple dynamic behavior from text and pictorial descriptions but not from graphical descriptions. |
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| Problems in Causal Loop Diagrams Revisited |
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Author(s):
George P. Richardson |
Subject:
System Dynamics |
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A discussion of the discrepancies which can result from the S (Same) and O (Opposite) notation commonly used to label links in word-and-arrow diagrams. |
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| Problems with Causal-Loop Diagrams (D-3312-1) |
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Author(s):
George P. Richardson |
Subject:
System Dynamics |
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A discussion of the difficulties in the traditional definitions of positive and negative links in causal-loop diagrams. Possible improvements are suggested. From Road Maps 4. |
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| Quality and System Dynamics/Systems Thinking: Integrating Them in a Middle School |
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Author(s):
Joan Yates |
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Project Histories |
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From Catalina Foothills School District. Staff members at Orange Grove Middle School in Tucson, AZ, have been integrating some of the key practices and principles of total quality, system dynamics, and systems thinking within their school for the past sev |
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| Retire Rich App - Mini Lesson |
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Author(s):
Anne LaVigne |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Retire Rich is a free, engaging, easy-to-use app for students and others to explore the implications of different plans to save for retirement. Students can change annual savings, interest rates, and the timing of saving to see what happens over the course of a lifetime. |
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| Revitalizing the Schools: A Systems Thinking Approach (D-4256) |
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Author(s):
Colleen Lannon-Kim |
Subject:
Project Histories |
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Revitalizing our schools is fundamental to our ability to remain competitive in the rapidly changing global marketplace. This report provides a glimpse of the slow-building revolution—fueled by a systems thinking approach—that is taking place in education |
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| Road Maps: Part 1, A Guide to Learning System Dynamics (D-4311-2) |
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Author(s):
System Dynamics in Education Project |
Subject:
Road Maps |
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From SDEP. Part 1 in a series of 9. A short collection of readings that introduce a novice to system dynamics. The packet includes: a) Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking (D. Kauffman): An excellent introduction to system dynamics, including fe |
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