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Systems Scramble

In this activity, learners will have conversations about how systems work, and how we can work together to better understand systems and work toward creating a more sustainable future.

DESCRIPTION

This sustainability activity is meant to promote conversation about how systems work, and how we can work together to better understand systems and work toward creating a more sustainable future. Players will actively move around the activity space, figuring out their place in a system, and reevaluating as the system changes. This game it works especially well with camp or school groups. You need at least 8 players for this game, but you can modify it to play with fewer people.

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  • Image of kids lined up preparing for a game of Systems Scramble
  • Systems Scramble guide cover

DESCRIPTION

This sustainability activity is meant to promote conversation about how systems work, and how we can work together to better understand systems and work toward creating a more sustainable future. Players will actively move around the activity space, figuring out their place in a system, and reevaluating as the system changes. This game it works especially well with camp or school groups. You need at least 8 players for this game, but you can modify it to play with fewer people.

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OBJECTIVES

LEARNING GOALS

  • Systems thinking helps us understand our complex world and plan for a more sustainable future. Systems have many interrelated parts and connections. We all have a role in creating a more sustainable future.

  • Systems have many interrelated parts and connections.

  • We all have a role in creating a more sustainable future.

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2016
OWNING INSTITUTION

Arizona State University

FUNDING

Sustainability in Science Museums is supported by the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives at Arizona State University.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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