Systems Kick-off!

Our favorite activity of the day was kicking off our year-long theme of Systems. Students interpreted the definition of a system and worked in teams to brainstorm examples. They came up with some great ones! We also named the different features of systems, (boundary, input, output, elements, & interactions) drew and labeled the parts of a system, created a list of generalizations about systems, and competed in a friendly Kahoot quiz to show off what we had learned.

Generalization for Systems:

• Systems have parts that work together to create a whole.
• Systems interact.
• Parts of systems are interdependent upon one another.
• A system may be influenced by another system.

Systems illustrations and labels

 
We also explored some creative thinking activities on Renzulli, did our daily morphic thinking, and practiced building a growth mindset by persisting in some brain challenges with the Set and Quiddler daily puzzles and word analogies.

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