Cooperation Competency
Students explore the principles that allow groups to work together and achieve common goals, applying them to the groups that they are a part of or care about.
Exploring the Design Principles for Cooperation Read More »
Students identify the moral intuitions underlying people’s opinions in quoted texts and images.
Noticing moral intuitions Read More »
A set of behavioral experiments across cultures that explore the human sense of fairness.
Game theory: Ultimatum and Dictator game Read More »
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 discuss how we can use our understandings to create a more fair world.
“Fair” does not always mean the same thing Read More »
Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups make decisions.
Honeybee Democracy Read More »
Lesson plan and worksheets to apply understandings of moral psychology in classroom discussions about ethical issues
Discussion guide about moral issues Read More »
In this unit students explore stories of people who have left a radical movement, or deliberately discuss with representatives of the “other side” and build respectful relationships. These let us explore the circumstances, experiences and insights about why prejudice, hatred and violence against other people or a group can arise and how they can dissolve again.
True stories of people who left radical movements Read More »
In a classroom simulation game with changing conditions students develop strategies for the use of a common resource so that the profit for the entire group is maximized.
A group game that lets students experience the dilemma between self-interest and collective interest when groups have to work together to achieve shared goals.
Collective Action Puzzle Game Read More »
A cooperation game that lets students experience some of the challenges of cooperation in addressing global climate change
Climate Change Game Read More »
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