Book Review & Giveaway - Connected Wisdom
by Linda Booth Sweeney, Ed. D.
Connected Wisdom: Living Stories About Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a "living system." Through them, Linda Booth Sweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time.
A Balinese folktale tells the story of a gecko who cannot sleep because of the sparks from a firefly. He traces the cause of his complaint from one animal to another to the mosquitoes he depends on for his survival. Like this gecko, young readers will understand that all life is inter-related, and will be able to grasp the concept of the living system of "interdependence." In a Burmese folktale, a king spills a drop of honey on his windowsill, too little to bother cleaning up. Yet the drop draws a fly, which attracts a lizard, which is followed by a cat, then a dog, and the owners of the cat and the dog, each armed with a stick. When civil war erupts, the king and readers understand the living system of "linearity," in which an effect is disproportionate to its cause. Clear and simple notes accompany these and the other stories in Connected Wisdom.
Says Sweeney, "If kids understand living systems, they're more likely to think and act in informed ways and less likely to jump to blame a single cause for the challenges they encounter. As kids appreciate and learn about living systems, they see that connections in nature, people, problems and events bind us all."
Connected Wisdom is a large-format, full-color volume that is as suitable for gift-giving as it is for classrooms and libraries.
Find out more about it at: http://www.planetseed.com/sciencearticle/living-stories-about-living-systems or http://www.seedstore.slb.com/product-listing.asp?CID=1173
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This book is a great way to teach someone and tell a story in a different way to get many new things from it. I leaned so much and was able to think of things so differently after reading!!
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This review was made possible by Mom Spark Media. Thoughts are my own. I received a copy of Connected Wisdom for the purpose of this review. All prizing for MSM giveaways is handled by a third party unless otherwise noted. For this reason prize fulfillment can take up to 90 days after the winners information is received.
Find out more about it at: http://www.planetseed.com/sciencearticle/living-stories-about-living-systems or http://www.seedstore.slb.com/product-listing.asp?CID=1173
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This book is a great way to teach someone and tell a story in a different way to get many new things from it. I leaned so much and was able to think of things so differently after reading!!
Enter to win one for yourself:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
or if you don't want to wait, order one now:
This review was made possible by Mom Spark Media. Thoughts are my own. I received a copy of Connected Wisdom for the purpose of this review. All prizing for MSM giveaways is handled by a third party unless otherwise noted. For this reason prize fulfillment can take up to 90 days after the winners information is received.
I love how it tells kids about living systems-great sounding book!
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