Brainstorming

Suitable for Steps 1, 2 of the Jeans and Chips EXAMPLES

Using the descriptions (or videos or stories) about the chosen topic prepared in Step 1, learners may try to classify the different items in their descriptions as elements, interrelationships, dynamism, and functions, which are part of the systems vocabulary.

Word table – Select words from the description; match these words to the systems components.

Rivets	Element
Cotton	Interrelationship
Thinking that jeans are ‘cool’	Dynamism
Market price of cotton	Function
To produce clothing for people	Function

Potatoes	Element
Consumer preference for plain salted chip	Interrelationship
Changes in chip sales	Dynamism
To produce profit for the company that owns the chips brand	Function
To produce clothing for people	Function
Chips
Salt