The Shape of Change and The Shape of Change: Stocks and Flows

In The Shape of Change, 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’ 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 – an understanding of how structure creates the behavior we observe all around us. More information is available at www.clexchange.org