System: Get a tall glass that you can see through and fill it up 1/2 way. Insert a straw. This is your system. Blow air through the straw into the water and observe. Your model you draw is of the system as it is moving (because you are blowing air into it).
ASSIGNMENT #4
Page title: Systems and System Models Practice
Draw a box that takes up about half of the page. Draw a model of the system you just created. A good model includes labels, arrows to show movement, and clear pictures.
Heading: System Boundaries
The components of my system model are…
Heading: Flow of Energy and Matter
The input of my system model is…
The output of my system model is…
Between the input and the output of my system model, the system… (describe movements or steps).
Here are the vocab definitions we presented in class today to develop the academic vocabulary of the concept we have been covering (complicated systems):
VOCAB TAB, PAGE #1
System: A group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot
System model: A representation of systems and their interactions, such as inputs, processes, and outputs, and the flow of energy, matter, and information within systems
Subsystem: Within a large system, there may be smaller systems that each carry out a task. Each subsystem works together to make up the system.
Components: All the parts needed to explain the phenomenon, problem, or process
System boundary: System boundaries decide which components are within your system versus which are part of the outside environment
Inputs: The parts that enter the system from outside
Watch this Rube Goldberg Machine created by the band Ok Go in this music video. (Please feel free to mute if needed for cultural reasons, the music itself is not needed for this assignment.)
Step 1: Break this whole system down into subsystems. For each subsystem, list the input (from outside the system) and the output (what gets passed on to the next subsystem).
Step 2: Choose one subsystem and draw a model of it.
These are the slides / questions presented the week of Sept. 3 through Sept. 6 and ending on Sept. 9. Please use them to fill in any days you were absent on your assignment before you turn it in. All late / absent work for this assignment is due Friday, Sept. 13. Thank you 🙂
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Hey everyone! I know I’ve been pretty quiet the past couple of weeks… just been enjoying my time with my family. 🙂 We have been spending a lot of time up in northern MI. LOTS of butterflies up there! There’s milkweed everywhere all along the roadside and you can always find monarchs flying around in it! I took a break from egg hunting but yesterday I went and found 5 eggs. We’re going to go on another hunt on Sunday or Monday to see if we can find more. It’s a very relaxing hobby!
Something else that was kinda cool is that we were up at my parents’ house and a HUGE cecropia moth came to visit! They are crazy awesome! They have fuzzy antennae and bodies and a HUGE wingspan. He filled up my whole hand! I needed both hands to grab him out of the grass so i didn’t get a picture of that… but still so cool! We thought he was unable to fly due to a damaged wing but he took off shortly after I took this photo. 🙂 Nature is so wild…
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you… Louis Vuitton. 🙂 A male.
I just got home from adventures with my kids, so I’m not sure how long he’s been hanging to dry but he’s not really moving around just yet which is a sign he’s not ready. When he starts to flap his wings a bit I will take him outside and free him!
Our chrysalis is getting dark which is the first sign that the butterfly is going to come out soon. It should be within the next 48 hours!
It’s kind of hard to see in this picture because it’s only a little bit dark so far. Over the next day or so the chrysalis itself will become completely transparent / see-through and we will be able to see the butterfly inside… then it breaks out and hangs to dry… that’s why I had to get creative here and prop up the lid of the container with a McDonald’s cup! Otherwise he/she wouldn’t have enough room to hang dry!
