Check out our latest NJSTA Rockstar Science Program for 2025-26!
The sessions are FREE for members, but $15 for non-members.
Systems and System Models are useful in science and engineering because the world is complex, so it is helpful to isolate a single system and construct a simplified model of it." Working with systems requires understanding the parts that make up a system as well as identifying the boundaries and what is assumed to lie outside them. In this session we will discuss examples of systems in the real world, what makes a system complex versus not complex, tools for building and modeling systems (SageModeler, and StarLogo Nova) and some classroom materials to help support teaching and learning about complex systems. Systems appear across science in many topics and align with many DCIs but like all models, models of systems need to make assumptions and approximations in order to be useful. How these assumptions and approximations are made is at the core of working with systems both in a classroom and in real world laboratories, businesses, and sociopolitical problem solving.
Please consider becoming a NJSTA member for access to presentation recordings, access to the NJSTA Science Table (PLC), and other NJSTA opportunities!
We hope to see you there!
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