Systems! 

program participation

This program will include four 90 minutes sessions, with the last dedicated to presentation of the 3rd graders work to (bout 70) other third graders at their school. Our group will include twenty-three children, who have already been divided into five groups. Their teacher is [|Diane Seaver,] who will visit our class on February 11 (just following our first visit with her students).

__ Session 1 __
 * 2014 Schedule **
 * Five minute discussion in small groups with elicitation questions. ?Work with template for "mapping systems."
 * ? Starting exercise: This [|curriculum about the Exxon Valdez oil spill]includes (p5) a nicely described participatory exercise that have the kids play different components in the "web of life" interconnected with string -- which is cut as the system experiences different impacts (like the oil spill). We have done a similar exercise in our research program.
 * Teach them about an array of systems -- using the "mapping systems" template for each so that they come way knowing about systems, but also with a way of analyzing them. See Dewey quotes relevant to this here.

__ Session 2 __
 * More teaching about various systems.

__ Session 3 __
 * More teaching about various systems.

__ Session 4. __ Presentations