Preview of the Map a System student task, helping learners identify parts, connections, roles, boundaries, and effects within a system.
Preview of the What Is a System? student thinking record for capturing observations about parts, relationships, change, and influence.
Cover of What Is a System?, a free classroom resource introducing systems thinking through parts, connections, roles, boundaries, and change.
Preview of the What Is a System? exit tickets, helping learners reflect on relationships, effects, and changes within a system.
Preview of the first What Is a System? investigation, introducing the question: What is affecting what?
Preview of the Map a System student task, helping learners identify parts, connections, roles, boundaries, and effects within a system.
Preview of the What Is a System? student thinking record for capturing observations about parts, relationships, change, and influence.
Cover of What Is a System?, a free classroom resource introducing systems thinking through parts, connections, roles, boundaries, and change.
Preview of the What Is a System? exit tickets, helping learners reflect on relationships, effects, and changes within a system.
Preview of the first What Is a System? investigation, introducing the question: What is affecting what?

What Is a System?

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A free foundation classroom resource for introducing systems thinking through parts, connections, roles, boundaries, and change.

What Is a System? helps students move from naming things to noticing relationships. Students learn that a system is not just a group of objects. A system is a group of parts that affect one another.

This resource introduces the key Irwin question:

What is affecting what?

Students investigate everyday systems, sort examples into piles, collections, or systems, map how parts connect, notice roles and boundaries, and reflect on what changes when one part changes.

This is a foundation Irwin System™ classroom resource. It is designed as a low-risk starting point for teachers who want to try the reasoning approach before moving into the wider Resource Library.

Includes:
teacher introduction, student opening, first investigation, guided examples, student task, thinking record, teacher notes, evidence capture guide, exit tickets, extension questions, and quick teacher reference.

A free foundation classroom resource for introducing systems thinking through parts, connections, roles, boundaries, and change.

What Is a System? helps students move from naming things to noticing relationships. Students learn that a system is not just a group of objects. A system is a group of parts that affect one another.

This resource introduces the key Irwin question:

What is affecting what?

Students investigate everyday systems, sort examples into piles, collections, or systems, map how parts connect, notice roles and boundaries, and reflect on what changes when one part changes.

This is a foundation Irwin System™ classroom resource. It is designed as a low-risk starting point for teachers who want to try the reasoning approach before moving into the wider Resource Library.

Includes:
teacher introduction, student opening, first investigation, guided examples, student task, thinking record, teacher notes, evidence capture guide, exit tickets, extension questions, and quick teacher reference.