In this lesson students explore the causes of our moral intuitions with the help of a sorting activity and reflection questions.
Grade or Expertise Level: 9-12
Using puppets psychologists explore what small children as young as a few months old think about their social environment and whether they can distinguish
A reading text about the challenges of life in groups and how groups across biology have found ways to solve these challenges.
A video excerpt and worksheet on the importance of pointing gestures in human communication
A reading text on the evolution of the baby schema together with cooperative child care
A reading text and causal mapping tasks on the (co)evolution of brain size, childhood, premature birth, cooperative childcare and social learning and teaching
A series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees
A handout about the “Triune Brain” model highlighting different functions of different brain regions
