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		Case Studies for Education and Research

STELLA has been used to teach subjects ranging from Environmental Science to Psychology. Check out our library of education and research case studies:

New Insights into Freshwater Systems

Fifty-eight lakes in northwestern Ontario, Canada serve as the Experimental Lakes Area, a remote living laboratory where scientists have been conducting whole-ecosystem research for over 40 years. Using data they’ve been collecting over the years, scientists study various natural and man-made impacts on freshwater ecosystems.

ALCES Landscape Model Informs Land Use Policies

Brad Stelfox is distinguished among STELLA users. First, he’s been using STELLA for more than 20 years; since he was an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Second, he’s used STELLA to build ALCES, A Landscape Cumulative Effects Simulator; one of the largest models ever in use.

Environmental Sciences

This case study shows how STELLA was used to understand a process where cause and effect are separated by a large amount of time: the depletion of the ozone layer.

Biology

Understand how STELLA was used in a major California high school to help students understand, not only the mathematics behind the Hardy-Weinberg Law, but also the processes.

Chemistry

This account of the teaching of chemical kinetics on an Ivy League campus shows how STELLA can be used to understand both the mechanism and time-path for a reaction.

Economics

This case study shows how STELLA was used to teach the basic macroeconomic model at a prestigious liberal arts college.

History

Understand how a historical geographer used STELLA to evaluate three theories that attempted to explain the demise of the Aztecs.

Literature

See how STELLA can be used to represent qualitative concepts such as passion, melancholy, and willingness in this application to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Mathematics

This case study shows how STELLA was used to teach related rates during a Calculus lesson in a Northern Virginia suburban high school.

Psychology

Learn how abstract concepts like emotion can be approached concretely and rigorously with the STELLA software in an Introductory Psychology course.

US-China Systems Science Learning Project

Students in Burlington, Vermont and Nanjing, China collaborate on complex models and apply Systems Thinking and STELLA to real-world problems.

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