Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating Emergent Properties in Dynamic Systems | NSTA

Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating Emergent Properties in Dynamic Systems

This demonstration was developed for an introduction to a soil science class to show how emergent properties are an essential behavior endemic to dynamic systems; explanations for their existence are not dependent on external forces. Emergent properties are new structures or behaviors exhibited by a system in response to external changes in its environment (Corning 2002). This demonstration would be suitable for other Earth-system sciences, biology, and general systems and chaos theory.

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