What kinds of thinking are currently required of Kindergarten students in object relations? (systems thinking)

IDENTIFICATION
- Of activities (of people)
- Of functions (roles, ways objects extend what the human body can do)
- Of places/contexts
- Of purposes for relationships (preservation of body, so stabilized relationships can happen)
- Of situations (how action in environments changes depending on the community members)
- Of intention (in design, of which elements are used to communicate between members)

DESCRIPTION
- Of behaviors (which balance the organism/community survival within a space)
- Of needs (particularly of human needs, of different kinds of needs – physical, emotional)

DIFFERENTIATION
- Between alternate ways of responding/initiating relationships
- Between environments and types of relationships which happen in them

GENERATION
- Of potential uses (for obects, materials, human communication symbols)

DEMONSTRATIVE
- Of origin (of communication between different members in community)
- Of value (of communications)
- Of purpose (of different types of communications between nodes)
- Of substance (material quality – the bits of wholes, how bits can be arranged different ways)
- Of interactions (between living/non-living parts of systems to create communications)
- Of process (used to create communications)
- Of utility (that organisms reorganize objects in a system to sustain life)

COMMUNICATIVE
- To identify substance/features (material)
- To identify purpose (tools/equipment)
- To identify processes
- To order (number sequence)