The King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (KCVS)

The King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (KCVS)1 generates electronic interactive visualizations to help students and the public see and understand science. Around 500,000 unique visitors from 110 different countries use KCVS resources each year. A strong focus for KCVS is to collaborate with local, national and global partners to provide tools and resources for systems thinking and to contribute to the emergence of sustainability. In partnership with the IUPAC STCS-2030+ project group, KCVS created this Sustainability and Systems Thinking in Chemistry Education (SaSTICE) website to help educators and students implement systems thinking in chemistry education and connect chemistry to sustainability.2,3 The SOCKit learning tool equips users to create their own dynamic, interactive SOCMEs (Systems-Oriented Concept Map Extension), as tools for systems thinking.4

  1. The King’s Centre for Visualizations in Science, https://kcvs.ca/ 
  2. IUPAC Project No. 2020-014-3-050. Systems Thinking in Chemistry for Sustainability: Toward 2030 and Beyond (STCS 2030+). https://iupac.org/project/2020-014-3-050
  3. Sustainability and Systems Thinking in Chemistry Education, https://sastice.com/ 
  4. SOCKit, the SOCME Online Construction Kit (KCVS), https://sastice.com/kcvs-sockit-the-socme-online-construction-kit/