Research

Goal:
Research the history and how your system works.

Agenda:
RESEARCH

Reminders:

• the purpose of your research is to find the history of the system and model how it currently works
• record notes and sources in your shared Google doc, NOT in other apps
• final drafts of your models are due next Wednesday 4/26

If you are having a hard time figuring out what to research, come up with subquestions you might have about their system (who, what, when, where, why, how). For example, a group doing research on puppy mills might ask:

• Who runs puppy mills? Who buys the puppies?
• Where are puppy mills located?
• What are puppy mills?
• Why do people run puppy mills?
• Are there laws against puppy mills? How are they enforced?

You may want to begin drawing out models on the whiteboards. 

Choose Wisely

Goal:
Choose a system that heals the world, fuels the world, feeds the world, or restores and protects the environment.

Agenda:
Project Groups
Fish Name Vote
Choose Your System

Project Groups
Don't get comfy, you're moving seats.

Fish Name Vote
Vote for the fish names here.

Choose Your System
1. Open this document in Google Docs. It is where your group will be recording and sharing notes.
2. Rename your document Period #-First Names Systems Design Journal
3. Share the document with your team members, me (awallace@euhsd.org), and Ms. Stillman (lstillman@euhsd.org)
4. Complete page 1 (choosing your system). YOUR SYSTEM MUST BE APPROVED BEFORE YOU LEAVE TODAY.

Thinking in Systems

Goal:
Define, model, and give examples of systems.

Agenda:
Thinking In Systems
Modeling Systems
Give an Example

Download:
Excerpt from Thinking In Systems - Open in Notability

Thinking in Systems
Read and annotate the excerpt. As you read THINK ABOUT THIS/COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
How do you know whether you are looking at a system or just a bunch of stuff?

Modeling Systems
We will model the Tea Station together.
You will model the digestive system with your table group on whiteboards.

Give an Example
Complete this Google Form