The shape of change
Subtitle: The shape of change : stocks and flows
By: Rob Quaden and Alan Ticotsky ; with Debra Lyneis ; illustrated by Nathan Walker
Contributors: Ticotsky, Alan, author; Lyneis, Debra, author; Walker, Nathan, illustrator
Publisher: Creative Learning Exchange
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Acton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780975316979
Subjects: Critical thinking; Study and teaching (Elementary); Activity programs; Change; Thought and thinking; Constructivism (Education)
Other titles: Shape of change; Shape of change: stocks and flows
Description: Students engage in games and other classroom activities (teamwork, hands-on, learner-centered learning) to explore what changes over time. They draw behavior over time graphs to examine how these things changed, and they relate the patterns of behavior to other changes in their experience. Step-by-step, students build stock/flow maps explaining each lesson activity. These stock/flow maps are tied directly to students&#x2019; earlier behavior over time graphs and to the underlying causal loop structures that drive the changes. In this manner, students begin to build systems thinking skills &#x2013; an understanding of how structure creates the behavior we observe all around us.
Notes: "The shape of change" [is a] Revised Edition.

"This book is a combined edition of two books, 'The shape of change' and 'The shape of change: stocks and flows'. ... This edition is literally the two books put together in the same volume with nothing added or subtracted. ...'The Shape of change: stocks and flows' begins immediately following page 144 in 'The shape of change'." --Author's note.

"Copyright ©2009 a combination and reprinting of the following books: 'The shape of change' (third edition) ©2008 [and] 'The shape of change: stocks and flows' ©2007" --T.p. verso.

"Second printing ©2015" --T.p. verso.