1. Supplementary Material for Chapter 5
Building Resilience: Modeling Resilience Concepts Using Legos
This chapter is published as:
Quinn C, Quinn J Building Resilience: Modeling Resilience Concepts Using Legos. In: Byrne L (ed) Lerner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Springer, New York. DOI / _5
Courtney E. Quinna and John E. Quinnb
aSustainability Science, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA
 bBiology, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA
This file contains the following supplementary material:
C: Example slide
This chapter also has the following supplementary material, available on the chapter’s website:
A: Background on Resilience and Key Literature
B: Examples of structures with photos

2. Activity guidelines
Create a model that demonstrates (at least) one characteristic of a resilient system
Example
REDUNDANCY: build a structure with three walls to hold up a roof when two walls would accomplish the same job.
Other concepts related to resilience that you could illustrate include
GRIT
ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATES
THRESHOLDS
HYSTERESIS
RECOVERY
UNCERTAINTY
There is no right or wrong way to build your structure. Be creative! Be prepared to explain and justify your structure to the class.