Ecological Regulation

Some thing is adjusted to maintain some other thing which supports another thing. • Adjustment (the thing to be adjusted determines the transfer function) • Maintenance (the thing to be maintained is subject to disturbance) • Support (the thing to be supported determines the reference)

SUPPORT (Reference)

ADJUSTMENT (Transfer function)

MAINTAINENCE (Disturbance)

Adjusting Applications

Materials Conditions

Process Techniques

Products Evaluations Supporting Goals Maintaining Distinctions Irreversibility Consequences

The transformation of materials and energy into products that can improve further processing and support further transformations of materials and energy into more concentrated products. When a student makes a diagram (product) that demonstrates a process or product (goal), by applying techniques to the conditions that distinguish products from An Individual Deed (Score) Population of Individual Deeds (Counts of Scores) Community of Deeds Populations (Relations of Counts) Ecosystem of Deed Communities (Systems of Relations)

Instructions

Goals

Obstructions

Disturbances

Constructions

Products

Destructions

Waste

Deconstructions

Evaluation

Reconstructions

Adjustment

kilometres

holidays

decametres

arrival departure

absence presences

meters

assignments

topics

weeks

months

decimetres millimetres

classwork seconds

GRADE Class-work Assignment Tests Attendance Completion Organisation Effort Behaviour

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worksheet s minutes

hours

days

years