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"Thinking Like a Bathtub" references and resources to support climate change education and action.
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The Systems Mapping process was facilitated by Scott Spann (Innate Strategies) and involved over 80 public and private partners in 2012.  The map documents the array of systems’ components within Hawaii’s early childhood system.  The map spotlights potential levers of change that would have the greatest impact for improving the lives our youngest children. Click … Action, Public, System Map, Data Visualization, Context Map, System, Strategies, Components, Data
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Systems Map - Hawaii Action Strategy
The Systems Mapping process was facilitated by Scott Spann (Innate Strategies) and involved over 80 public and private partners in 2012. The map documents the array of systems’ components within Hawaii’s early childhood system. The map spotlights potential levers of change that would have the greatest impact for improving the lives our youngest children. Click …
A practical worksheet for developing understanding of stock and flow structures and for recognizing them in everyday situtations. Education, Climate Change, Systems Thinking, Interactive Tools, Sustainability Science, Organizational Behavior, Paradigm, Structures, Interactive
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Going Deeper on Stocks and Flows
A practical worksheet for developing understanding of stock and flow structures and for recognizing them in everyday situtations.
Created for COP26, the youth-narrated video has 4 goals: 1. More people understand the basics – that CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere like water accumulates in a bathtub -- causing our carbon cycle to be out of whack. 2. More people "turn down the faucet, open the drain" and take significant action. 3. More kids use the bathtub as a way to talk with their parents about climate change. 4. More educators and parents use the bathtub as a way to talk with children about climate change People, Water, Bathtub, Parents, Drain, Turn Ons, About Climate Change
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Created for COP26, the youth-narrated video has 4 goals: 1. More people understand the basics – that CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere like water accumulates in a bathtub -- causing our carbon cycle to be out of whack. 2. More people "turn down the faucet, open the drain" and take significant action. 3. More kids use the bathtub as a way to talk with their parents about climate change. 4. More educators and parents use the bathtub as a way to talk with children about climate change
The Earth is warming the Earth. In this series of five short films, learn why natural warming loops have scientists alarmed—and why we have less time than we think Learning, Earth, Scientist, Natural, Loop, Series, Short Films, Short Film
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Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops
The Earth is warming the Earth. In this series of five short films, learn why natural warming loops have scientists alarmed—and why we have less time than we think
Research on conceptions of stock-flow relationships using the bathtub analog. By Linda Booth Sweeney and John D. Sterman September 2000 Teaching, Development, Business School, Business Leader, Mathematics
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Bathtub Dynamics: Initial Results of a Systems Thinking Inventory
Research on conceptions of stock-flow relationships using the bathtub analog. By Linda Booth Sweeney and John D. Sterman September 2000
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Take a look in the blog posts for numerous posts about "Thinking Like a Bathtub". See https://www.lindaboothsweeney.net/blog/?p=1307 Organisations, Decoration, Ideas, Leadership, Alchemy, Design
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Take a look in the blog posts for numerous posts about "Thinking Like a Bathtub". See https://www.lindaboothsweeney.net/blog/?p=1307
This book includes simple, interactive exercises to help people of all ages better understand climate change, diagnose its causes, anticipate its future consequences, and effect constructive change. Adapted from The Systems Thinking Playbook, the twenty-two games are now specifically relevant to climate-change communications and crafted for use by experts, advocates, and educators. Illustrated guidelines walk leaders through setting each game up, facilitating it, and debriefing participants. See Games, Thinking Games, Effective Communication
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Climate Interactive is one of the best resources I've found for climate change ed and change from a systems perspective. Check out the bathtub simulation! Paris, Perspective, Environmental Engineering, Carbon Emissions
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Climate Interactive is one of the best resources I've found for climate change ed and change from a systems perspective. Check out the bathtub simulation!
A video describing how small changes in the amount of emissions can cause significant changes in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Based on "Climate Bathtub" model, as described by John D. Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon, Science Education, Science, Atmosphere, Canning, Change
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Modeling Carbon Dioxide with a Bathtub
A video describing how small changes in the amount of emissions can cause significant changes in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Based on "Climate Bathtub" model, as described by John D. Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney:
A systems change summit for youth groups focused on “helping the system to see itself” through systems mapping. We built in plenty of opportunities to envision “future states” (Buckminster Fuller’s term), cross-pollinate between and among the groups, make real commitments for action and have fun! Workshop, Agent Of Change, Youth Groups, Youth Group
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A systems change summit for youth groups focused on “helping the system to see itself” through systems mapping. We built in plenty of opportunities to envision “future states” (Buckminster Fuller’s term), cross-pollinate between and among the groups, make real commitments for action and have fun!
According to Chris Soderquist, "The key to finding leverage is to build useful mental models that capture the physics of the “system” you’re trying to influence. " A bathtub is one of those useful models. Models, Physics, Leverage, Mental, Introduction
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According to Chris Soderquist, "The key to finding leverage is to build useful mental models that capture the physics of the “system” you’re trying to influence. " A bathtub is one of those useful models.
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The Creative Learning Exchange encourages an active, learner-centered process of discovery for 3-19 year old students that engages in meaningful, real-world problem solving through the mastery of systems thinking and system dynamics modeling. Learners, Discovery, Problem Solving, Students, Student, Mastery
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The Creative Learning Exchange encourages an active, learner-centered process of discovery for 3-19 year old students that engages in meaningful, real-world problem solving through the mastery of systems thinking and system dynamics modeling.
Thinking in Systems offers offers Donella's insights for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Wells, Ecological Systems, Thinking Skills, E-book, Reading Online, Worth Reading
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The Waters Center for Systems Thinking is an internationally recognized leader in system thinking capacity building. We are dedicated to providing the tools and methods that help people understand, track, and leverage the connections that affect their personal and professional goals. Adhd, Educational Technology, Student Behavior, Executive Functioning, Classroom Management Tips, Educational Resources, Learning Resources, Education Math, Education Motivation
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The Waters Center for Systems Thinking is an internationally recognized leader in system thinking capacity building. We are dedicated to providing the tools and methods that help people understand, track, and leverage the connections that affect their personal and professional goals.
This is a short, two-minute video showcasing teens "making systems visible" as part of a systems change summit hosted by Sparkshare. Youtube, Non Profit, Privacy Policy, Metric
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This is a short, two-minute video showcasing teens "making systems visible" as part of a systems change summit hosted by Sparkshare.
A practical worksheet for developing understanding of stock and flow structures and for recognizing them in everyday situtations.
Going Deeper on Stocks and Flows
A practical worksheet for developing understanding of stock and flow structures and for recognizing them in everyday situtations.
Ranked actions to address climate change. Useful to look at from the perspective of turning down the faucet (reducing emissions) and opening the drain (improving carbon sinks, for example). Global Warming Solutions, Energy System, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind Turbines, Energy
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Ranked actions to address climate change. Useful to look at from the perspective of turning down the faucet (reducing emissions) and opening the drain (improving carbon sinks, for example).
Initial research looking at conceptions of stock and flow structures, conducted by Linda Booth Sweeney and John Sterman. Management, Booth, Stock, Mit Sloan, School
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Initial research looking at conceptions of stock and flow structures, conducted by Linda Booth Sweeney and John Sterman.
Helpful article in The Guardian explaining why Economists often describe climate change as a 'stock-flow' problem. This refers to the fact that the greenhouse effect, and in turn climate change, depends on the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the 'stock' – while the thing humans can control as a response is the rate at which additional greenhouse gases are emitted – the 'flow'. Economists, Reading, Greenhouse Effect, Control, Explain Why, Economist
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Why does climate change get described as a 'stock-flow' problem?
Helpful article in The Guardian explaining why Economists often describe climate change as a 'stock-flow' problem. This refers to the fact that the greenhouse effect, and in turn climate change, depends on the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the 'stock' – while the thing humans can control as a response is the rate at which additional greenhouse gases are emitted – the 'flow'.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts -- one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals explained. Infographics, Climate Action, Un Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Development
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Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts -- one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals explained.
This paper by John Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney contains the best explanation of the dynamics behind the animated "bathtub" similution on Climatate Interactive. Wadsworth, Understanding
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This paper by John Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney contains the best explanation of the dynamics behind the animated "bathtub" similution on Climatate Interactive.
The Work that Reconnects, largely inspired by the work of Joanna Macy, helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action. Motivation, Helping People, Healing Powers, Self Healing, Healing
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The Work that Reconnects, largely inspired by the work of Joanna Macy, helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.
I co-created these resources with the team at PBS learning media to showcase the integration of systems concepts and tools through K-12 curriculum. See section on STOCKS and Flows for a good explanation of "Thinking Like a Bathtub". Science Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, Research Projects, Pbs Learning Media, System Model
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I co-created these resources with the team at PBS learning media to showcase the integration of systems concepts and tools through K-12 curriculum. See section on STOCKS and Flows for a good explanation of "Thinking Like a Bathtub".
A National Geographic guide for teaching climate change in grades 2-8, includes a section on stocks and flows using the bathtub metaphor.
Nat Geo Changing Climate Teacher's Guide
A National Geographic guide for teaching climate change in grades 2-8, includes a section on stocks and flows using the bathtub metaphor.
One of the clearest, most compelling resources to understand climate change causes, consequences and actions. Public Transport, Country, Federal Reserve, Call To Action
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350.org: A global campaign to confront the climate crisis
One of the clearest, most compelling resources to understand climate change causes, consequences and actions.