Keep the Environment Green with Your Little One

Keep the Environment Green While Thinking Systematically

Why don't you try clustering? Tackle climate change and keep the environment green as a STEM Family while using systems thinking approach. Brainstorm with your children to take good algorithmic design.

How to Play

You and your child will be using sticky notes to brainstorm that what algorithm design affect to keep the environment green and prevent climate change. Tell your children: We're going to make a plan for keeping the environment green and also prevent climate change. we'll do it like systems thinkers and engineers! Firstly, use green sticky notes for good algorithmic design, and non-green sticky notes for bad algorithmic design. List all the actions your child told you as good algorithmic design or bad algorithmic design. Afterward, Split them into two groups to ask your child the results. You encourage your child to use sticky notes, write down each action, and also sketch the results.

Step 1: Talking through

You and your child should sit down and talk through: is keeping the environment green important for us. Ask more open-ended questions that allow your child to articulate what actions are preserving the environment.

One strategy: ask your child to close their eyes and imagine what we need to survive such as air, water, and oxygen.

Listen to your children express his/her ideas of the spending more time process step by step verbally -- and you start to write it down or let him/her write it down what they are saying.

Step 2: Start out brainstorming

It's a brainstorming moment, where you child and you can reflect on what they've done in the past. What would be the good and bad algorithmic designs to do?

Ask open-ended questions that allow them to articulate what are the good and bad algorithmic designs to take for specific situation. You don't need to use these formal questions, but just ask a lot of 'why' questions.

Ask them a question that triggers a picture from the past – “Do you remember the time you run the water while brushing teeth” or “What kind of bad did we use the last time we went to the grocery shopping?"

Step 3: Algorithmic designs and results

After brainstorming, have your child sketch on the white paper what the results of bad and good algorithmic designs.

The goal in this step is to get lots of visuals down on the paper and connect good algorithmic designs with results and bad algorithmic designs with results.

Step 4: Time to Test it

Now it's time to start the experiment -- tonight and following days, test this clustering with your child.

Tell your child that, let's brush our teeth to practice one good action today! Tomorrow, let's try another good algorithmic design. Try to avoid the bad algorithmic designs to keep the environment green and tackle climate change.