1. What do all of these pictures have in common? They are all systems.
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
What do all of these pictures have in common?
They are all systems.

2. way to perform a particular function.
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
System = a set of components that function and interact in some regular
way to perform a particular function.
A bicycle is an example of a system.
But if the parts of the bike are not assembled to that they work together
it is no longer a system.

3. The most powerful characteristic of any and all systems is Synergy.
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
The most powerful characteristic of any and all systems is Synergy.
Synergy occurs when two or more processes interact so that the
combined effect is greater than the sum of their separate effects.
Even if you know how each components of a system work and
behave, you cannot predict how the whole system is going to
work and behave.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

4. and many other elements.
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
The Human Body
is made of Carbon
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Calcium
Sodium
Magnesium
and many other elements.
If you were to purchase all of these
materials at the store the total cost
would be about…
$1.00
All of these materials put together to
make a human is priceless.

5. Using 6 sticks of equal length see if your group can create a system.
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
Using 6 sticks of equal length see if your group can create a system.
The tetrahedron is the strongest structure for its volume and surface
Area.
Imagine all the Synergy that is going on in your body which is much
more complex than the tetrahedron.

6. When combines we witness Synergy. Two deadly substances
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
Sodium
Chlorine
When combines we witness Synergy. Two deadly substances
combined to produce something we cannot live without.

7. Ecosystems also follow the laws of Synergy as well. It is the
Objective: Students will be able to explain the principles of systems, systemics, and synergy. They will also be able to construct a simple system.
Systems and Synergy
Ecosystems also follow the laws of Synergy as well. It is the
interrelationships between the parts that produces the behavior
of the whole.