What’s the Big Idea?

1. ✓Systems are composed of parts that work together to perform a function.
   

2. ✓Systems may be physical (for example, telephones, electronic games, or organ systems) or social (for example, health care, transportation, education, police force, or an ant colony).
   

3. ✓Systems have inputs, outputs, and side effects.
   

4. ✓The skills of analysis can be used to study the inputs, outputs, and side effects of everyday systems.
   

5. ✓The way we use systems affects society and the environment.

This amazing elephant was used in an outdoor theatre in London, England. The elephant was created using animatronics!