Tools And Techniques For Starting A System Dynamics
Program In Your School for students in grades 7 through 12
D. Fisher, R. Zaraza, Scott Guthrie, Tim Joy
Diana Fisher, Franklin High School, 5405 SE Woodward St., Portland, OR
97206 USA
Ron Zaraza, Wilson HS, 1151 SW Vermont, Portland, OR 97219, USA
Scott Guthrie, Wilson HS, 1151 SW Vermont, Portland, OR 97219, USA
Tim Joy, La Salle HS, 11999 SE Fuller Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97222, USA
sguthrie @teleport.com
The workshop will demonstrate a multi-faceted approach to the problem of starting a
system dynamics program in a 7 to 12th grade school environment. Hands-on activities
will be provided for the participants to help them understand what methods might work to
influence teachers to try this experiment. Student work will be demonstrated. A
presentation about the SyM*Bow! (student modeling) competition, how it is designed and
executed, will be made. A Dual Platform CD containing training materials used in the
National Science Foundation CC-STADUS/CC-SUSTAIN Project will be available (at
no cost) for all participants. These materials have been developed over the 6-year history
of the project, training high school and middle school math, science, and social studies
teachers to create STELLA models and curricular materials to use in their classroom.
The CD will also contain teacher created project modules that have been edited, as well
as some sample student models and technical papers. The CD will contain a run-time
version of STELLA for both the Windows and Macintosh operating systems, so that the
models included on the disk can be used for demonstration easily by the participants.
