The Constructive Dialogue Institute translate the latest behavioral science research into educational tools that are evidence-based, practical, and scalable in order to equip students
Grade or Expertise Level: 9-12
This video is about domestication – or “taming by breeding” – of foxes, a Russian research project that has been conducted since the 1950s.
The bonobo Kanzi was taught to make and use simple stone tools of the Oldowan culture. What can we conclude about the mental abilities
This model simulates the biological evolution of ethnocentrism in a population made up of multiple ethnicities.
A reading text about tool use and tool making in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A cooperation game that simulates the challenge of our stone age ancestors to acquire food in the African savanna
A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to cooperative foraging in a population over several
A fill in the blanks activity on the natural selection of traits that enabled cooperative foraging in our ancestors
A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A series of experiments with small children and chimpanzees to investigate their ability and motivation to engage in collaborative activities