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Climate as a complex adaptive system

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Reflect on the characteristics of complex adaptive systems that can be seen in Climate.

Modeling Climate

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What are the advantages of using computer models to study climate?  Post your reflection and Model Observation form here.

Lesson 1

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For each Lesson in Module 1, reflect on how you would teach this in your class, focusing on one of the following components of the lesson (choose a different component for each lesson/reflection in Module 1).

• Lesson Objectives
• Teaching Summary (do activities or estimated times need to be changed?)
• Suggested Assessment Questions
• Standards
• Responsiveness to various student needs

Post your reflection here.  

Translated instructions for ELL students?

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Hello, 

I'm teaching Module 1 and 3 (life Science - ecosystems) to my students for the next two weeks. Some of my ELL students are doing well and others are having trouble following along. Would anyone be willing to share any translated directions?

Most of my students speak Spanish.

A few speak Arabic, Swahili, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.

Thanks in advance, 

Sharon

Modeling Epidemics

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Reflect on the following questions:

• What assumptions are made in your model?  
• Was there any key factor that was left out that might be important in the real world?
• Would you trust a model if your life depended on it?

Modeling Contagion

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Reflect on other contagions in the news or local to your region.  Discuss how agent-based modeling could be used to study and understand the spread of that contagion.  

Collision Detection

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Reflect on using the collision block and the count-within block in the Colliding Turtles activity.

Algorithms

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Reflect on the Trailblazers activity.  Were you able to accurately follow the path using the signposts you left?  Did you make any mistakes (such as forgetting to color certain squares or using the wrong color squares)?  Next, consider whether you think there is more than one right solution, and if so, how you would decide which solution is best?

Boolean Expressions and Conditional Statements

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Reflect on using Boolean Expressions and Conditional Statements.  Post your reflection here:

Misconception: transmission rate and recovery rate apply to the population as a whole.

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The transmission rate and recovery rate used in the epidemic model can be tricky for those new to agent based modeling.  In other types of modeling rates generally apply to groups as a whole rather than individuals.  In agent based models, rates are used to convey chance of the occurrence of a change or transition in a single agent's state from one state to another.