Our interdisciplinary teacher’s guide outlines our educational design concept. It provides introductory readings around core concepts of human sciences and ideas for exploring them
Content Anchor: Child Development
The Evolving Schools Rapid Ethnographic Assessment (REA) Toolkit is an evolving collection of methods and workflows for developing a rapid or exploratory understanding of
What can we learn from children about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? The development of social and cognitive abilities in the course of a
Schools are central social environments for young people to grow and develop themselves. How schools are governed, and which norms, values, and institutions get
Teaching resources and information about the evolution and significance of gesturing and shared attention in our species
Can infants already distinguish between what is morally right and wrong? This video explores experiments with babies to answer these questions.
When people must share things, what does it mean to share fairly? Do all people around the world have the same idea of what
We present a teaching tool, used widely in other parts of science and science education, yet perhaps underutilized in human evolution education—the causal map—as
Evolutionary anthropologists commonly describe humans as a highly cooperative species, based on our evolved socio-cognitive capacities. However, students and the general public may not
These lesson materials introduce students to issues of fairness and various interpretations of it. Reflecting on results of a cross-cultural experiment with children, students