Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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A major intellectual insight of the latter twentieth century, greatly facilitated by the development of computers, has been the recognition that simple rules can indeed lead to order, of a particularly stable kind, but that many sets of simple rules instead lead to variability, and even to high degrees of unpredictable variation, for reasons having to do simply with the rules themselves, rather than with with any outside force.
The phenomenon of rules giving rise to not only order but also disorder, and, beyond that, to previously unknown forms of order, is the terrain currently being explored as "self-organization", "non-linear dynamical systems", "chaos", and "fractals". Whatever the reasons for it, these ideas are counter-intuitive to many people. At the same time, the new ideas have important and as yet to be fully explored implications ranging widely across human understanding and social organization. So come along for some experiences intended to make the ideas more intuitive. That way you too can participate in explorations of their significance.
