Module 3 Lesson 1 - Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive systems
Slide Deck
Teaching Summary
Getting Started 10 minutes
- Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems introduction
Activity #1: Papercatchers 25 minutes (New Learning)
complex adaptive systems
Module 2 Lesson 5 - Experiment with Your New Water Pumping Model
Slide Deck
Teaching Summary
Getting Started 5 minutes
- Review of previous day’s lesson and concepts and connection to today’s lesson
- Revisit complex adaptive systems concepts
Activity #1: Completing and Debugging Your Code 15 minutes
Module 1 Lesson 1 - Introduction to Complex Adaptive Systems and Computer Modeling and Simulation
Slide Deck
Teaching Summary
Getting Started 10 minutes
- Pre-test / assessment (optional short survey to assess existing knowledge)
Activity #1: Turn and Walk 25 minutes (New Learning)
Complex or Complicated?
"Complex or Complicated?"
Use the attached power point activity to review concepts of Complex Adaptive Systems. Before showing slides, review the 4 essential components of a Complex Adaptive System:
- Many agents following simple rules (interacting with the environment and/or with each other)
- Leaderless
- Self-organizing forming emergent patterns
- Difficult to predict
Review common misconceptions:
Emergence video
This 12:15 minute video is used in the Project GUTS on-line course (MOOC) to introduce the concept of emergence. It can be used, especially the first 4 minutes, to introduce the concepts to students as well.
Archived Material: CS in Science Module 3 - Ecosystems as complex systems (for StarLogo Nova 1.0)
Module 3 Summary of Pacing Guide:
Day 1: Introduction to ecosystems as complex adaptive systems by participatory simulation (Papercatchers) and preview Rabbits & Grass model
Day 2: Decode model and design and run experiments
Day 3: Modify Rabbits and Grass model to add a predator, run experiments to study the effect of this change on the ecosystem.
Day 4: Introduction to the Computational Science
cycle, design and develop customizations to your model.