Book with companion DVD! This book has become a favorite of K-12 teachers, university faculty, and corporate consultants. It provides short gaming exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. The companion DVD shows the authors introducing and running each of the 30 games. The 30 games are classified by these areas of learning – Mental Models, Team Learning, Systems Thinking, Shared Vision and Personal Mastery. Each description clearly explains when, how, and why the game is useful. There are explicit instructions for debriefing each exercise as well as a list of all required materials. A summary matrix has been added for a quick glance at all 30 games. When you are in a hurry to find just the right initiative for some part of your course, the matrix will help you find it. Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows both have many years of experience working with adults. This book reflects their insights. Every game works well and provokes a deep variety of new insights about paradigms, system boundaries, causal loop diagrams, reference modes, and leverage points. Each of the 30 exercises here was tested and refined many times until it became a reliable source of learning. Some of the games are adapted from classics of the outdoor education field. Others are completely new. But all of them complement readings and lectures to help participants understand intuitively the principles of systems thinking. The book includes many quotations from practitioner, who share their insights about the relevance of specific exercises. There are also citations for related reading

The Systems Thinking Playbook

Dennis Meadows

Linda Booth Sweeney

Business & Money

Sustainability Institute

Connected Wisdom: Living Stories About Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a "living system." Through them, Linda Booth Sweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time. A Balinese folktale tells the story of a gecko who cannot sleep because of the sparks from a firefly. He traces the cause of his complaint from one animal to another to the mosquitoes he depends on for his survival. Like this gecko, young readers will understand that all life is inter-related, and will be able to grasp the concept of the living system of "interdependence." In a Burmese folktale, a king spills a drop of honey on his windowsill, too little to bother cleaning up. Yet the drop draws a fly, which attracts a lizard, which is followed by a cat, then a dog, and the owners of the cat and the dog, each armed with a stick. When civil war erupts, the king and readers understand the living system of "linearity," in which an effect is disproportionate to its cause. Clear and simple notes accompany these and the other stories in Connected Wisdom. Says Sweeney, "If kids understand living systems, they're more likely to think and act in informed ways and less likely to jump to blame a single cause for the challenges they encounter. As kids appreciate and learn about living systems, they see that connections in nature, people, problems and events bind us all." Connected Wisdom is a large-format, full-color volume that is as suitable for gift-giving as it is for classrooms and libraries.

Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

SEED

Key Features Description A winter's day in a bustling town and hushed woods with Grandma is recalled in lyrical verse and bright illustrations. "Heartwarming" -Kirkus A winter's day in a bustling town and hushed woods with Grandma is recalled in lyrical verse and bright illustrations. "Heartwarming" -Kirkus Standards RL.1.4. Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. RL.1.4. Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. Product Details Item #: NTS835766 ISBN13: 9781338357660 Format: Paperback Book Pages: 32 Grades: K - 2 Lexile® Measure: AD220L Guided Reading Level: GR Level H DRA Level: 14 Key Features Item #: NTS835766 ISBN13: 9781338357660 Format: Paperback Book Pages: 32 Grades: K - 2 Lexile® Measure: AD220L Guided Reading Level: GR Level H DRA Level: 14

When the Snow Falls

Scholastic. Inc.

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