| Building Systems into the History/Social Studies Curricula: Some Preliminary Thoughts |
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Author(s):
P. Jeffrey Potash
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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Thoughts on using systems thinking and dynamic modeling to improve levels of historical literacy. |
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| Causes of the Civil War |
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Author(s):
Greg Reid
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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From Catalina Foothills School District. Five one hour lessons for 5th grade students. Through viewing relationships and systems, the learners will be able to graphically describe the tension in the US and the various causes of the Civil War. Students wil |
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| Easter Island Population Model |
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Author(s):
Diana M. Fisher
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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From CC-STADUS. Explores population-natural resource relationship, overshoot and collapse, leverage points. |
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| Economics and System Dynamics for Young Students |
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Author(s):
Debra Lyneis, Rob Quaden,& Alan Ticotsky
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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Today's students need an understanding of economics and system dynamics to participate effectively and fully in our complex global economy, but very few schools teach either discipline. Carlisle, Massachussetts teachers have developed several basic econom |
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| Modern Electronics: Teaching Economics to High School Students with a System Dynamics Simulator |
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Author(s):
Gary B. Hirsch
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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Teaching economics with a simulator can actively engage students and help them learn more effectively. This paper describes a simulator that teaches students economics in terms of a familiar economic institution, the retail store. The simulator casts the |
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| MUSINGS ON SOCIAL STUDIES AND SYSTEM DYNAMICS: LINKING “STANDARDS” WITH “SYSTEMS CITIZENSHIP” |
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Author(s):
Jeff Potash,& John Heinbokel
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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This is the first of three articles that explores building system dynamics tools and perspectives into the K-12 social studies curricula. This article begins with a “big picture” perspective in identifying goals that are shared by the two fields and that |
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| MUSINGS ON SOCIAL STUDIES AND SYSTEM DYNAMICS: Thinking Systemically |
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Author(s):
Jeff Potash,& John Heinbokel
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Subject:
Social Studies |
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This second article poses the question, “How can we effectively use system dynamics to build social studies curricula to meet those two goals?” These ideas have evolved over years of working with students, most recently with Rob Skiff within the middle- |
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| Students Taking a Systems Approach to Drinking and Driving |
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Author(s):
Stephany Yerger
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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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