Systems Thinking
What can we learn from computer models about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Computer models allow us to observe and investigate the influence of environmental conditions and behaviors on the evolutionary development of social-ecological systems.
UC Berkeley’s Understanding Evolution project is a source of K-12 and undergraduate evolution education resources, largely from a gene-centric perspective. Our entry includes a discussion of innovations and conceptual issues within this project.
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Rapid Assessment is a methodology for conducting rapid, reliable, and valuable assessments of school or community culture.
Ethnography is the documentation of culture. There are many ways to develop an ethnography, depending on the aims, context, and resources of the researchers.
Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while others failed.
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With these teaching materials, students can be introduced to game theory in general, as well as a concrete method, the public goods game. The conditions and rules of the public goods game reflect the challenge of a group to maintain common resources.
A cooperation game that lets students experience some of the challenges of cooperation in addressing global climate change
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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.
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A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
Chimps or children – who is better at sharing resources? Read More »
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 »
OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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