• Moral intuitions

Human Evolution Resources Moral intuitions A basic insight of social psychology is that our beliefs and attitudes about ethical-moral issues are also largely influenced

• Measuring what matters

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Measuring what matters

• Impacts on the Environment

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Impacts on the Environment All living things live in interaction with their environment. That is, their behavior changes the

• Resource use

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Resource Use All living things use resources from their environment to survive, to grow, to reproduce. However, if the

• Social (in)equality

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Social (In)Equality For most of our evolutionary history, we humans have been living in small groups, with no

• Democracy

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Democracy For most part of our evolutionary history, we humans have been living in small groups, with no more

• Population growth

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Population Growth Through better and better tools and technologies, our species has been able to make better and

• Living standards

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Living Standards As technologies have improved and have spread faster between people and regions, more and more people have come to live

• Food production

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Food production An important element that was important to the survival and reproduction of our ancestors was the

• Spread of innovations

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Spread of Innovations Technologies that facilitate or improve life and that do not entail any other direct costs or

• Social networking

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Social Networking Throughout our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in ever larger groups. Due to the need for

• Technologies

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Technologies Since the beginning of our genus Homo, our ancestors probably relied on the use of good tools to get food,

• Education

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Education The high ability for social learning is one of the characteristics that sets us apart from other species. Learning

• Communication

Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Communication Human language has been a successful adaptation throughout evolutionary history because it has allowed information, knowledge and technology

• Causal mapping pieces for causal relationships in the present and future

Materials for creating a causal map on the relationships between human behaviors, technologies, institutions, social and natural environments

• Connecting Past, Present, and Future

A collection of materials for connecting past human evolution to the present and the future. Students explore global trends and relationships between human behavior,

• DNA-V

Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor Resources on the DNA-V model Psychologists Louise Hayes and Joseph Ciarocchi have developed the DNA-V model. It contains the metaphors of

• OpenEvo Guide to Using AI Tools for Lesson Development

This document is intended to give you some ideas on how you can use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design a lesson or unit that

• Values domains sorting activity

This activity lets students explore the six different values domains by considering why we humans might have evolved to find these areas of life

• Interpreting emotions sorting activity (Slides)

In this activity students sort a range of examples of emotions into a matrix of good-bad and mild-intense. There are no right or wrong

• Throwing and body coordination

Human Evolution Resources Throwing and body coordination Some features of our body indicate that they are adaptations for the ability to throw objects. Thus,

• Cooperative foraging

Information and teaching resources on cooperative foraging in human evolution

• System archetypes

A collection of causal maps for system archetypes, made with Loopy

• Mismatch? (lesson plan)

Students learn about the concept of evolutionary mismatch and apply it to various problems of sustainable development.

• Experiment on the the co-evolution of tool making, teaching, and language

An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.

• Cultural evolution (lesson plan)

Students explore the concept of cultural evolution by comparing it to genetic evolution based on a number of concepts, and explore why cultural evolution

• Lost explorers

Stories of lost explorers that tell us about the importance of cultural knowledge to our survival.

• Species and Individuals

How can we understand variation in the minds of primates? An Orange-based data exploration.

• Reading text: Cumulative culture

A reading text about the importance of cumulative culture in our everyday experience and in the evolution of our species

• Comparative Cultural Psychology

Our collection related to learning about comparative, cross-cultural, and developmental psychology.

• Causes of our moral intuitions

In this lesson students explore the causes of our moral intuitions with the help of a sorting activity and reflection questions.

• Video, Worksheets: Experiments on the social behavior of babies

Using puppets psychologists explore what small children as young as a few months old think about their social environment and whether they can distinguish

• Life in groups and conflict resolution

A reading text about the challenges of life in groups and how groups across biology have found ways to solve these challenges.

• Video: the pointing gesture

A video excerpt and worksheet on the importance of pointing gestures in human communication

• Reading text – Baby schema

A reading text on the evolution of the baby schema together with cooperative child care

• Reading text – Evolution of childhood

A reading text and causal mapping tasks on the (co)evolution of brain size, childhood, premature birth, cooperative childcare and social learning and teaching

• Imitation in chimps and children (Video, Experiment)

A series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees

• Reading text – brain areas and their functions

A handout about the “Triune Brain” model highlighting different functions of different brain regions

• Two foresters – common forest causal mapping activity

• Values card sort (images2)

• Two foresters – private forest causal mapping activity

• Values card sort (images)

• Values card sort (text)

• Interpreting emotions sorting activity

• In my control outside my control sorting

• Fun-meaning-matrix sorting – youth version

• Fun-meaning-matrix sorting – teacher version

• Values and goals sorting – youth version

• Values and goals sorting – teacher version

• Interactive presentation: Analyzing moral language

• Causes of moral intuitions_emotions

• Causes of moral intuitions_adaptive function

• Causes of moral intuitions_original triggers

• Causes of moral intuitions_current triggers

• Moral intuitions matching activity

• Analogy table – moral taste buds_3

• Analogy table – moral taste buds_2

• Analogy table – moral taste buds_1

• Cognitive biases functions sorting_presentation

• Fast and slow thinking sorting activity

• Payoff matrix deforestation drag and drop

• Tinbergen's questions sorting activity – crossing road – mechanism, development, phylogeny

• Payoff matrix group work drag and drop

• Core Design Principles 4-6 mechanisms and symptoms sorting simpler

• Core Design Principles 1-3 mechanisms and symptoms sorting simpler

• Tinbergen's questions sorting activity – crossing road – phylogeny vs. trait function

• Behavior definition multiple choice

• Behavior concept sorting activity

• Evolution timeline quiz

• Evolution timeline – preconception

• Analogy table – Comparing genetic evolution and learning

• Analogy table – Comparing genetic and cultural evolution

• Evolution concept sorting activity

• Reading text – Brain and coordination of body movements

A reading text on the evolution of left-right handedness and the role of the brain

• Mismatch

Teaching resources and information for learning about the concept of evolutionary mismatch in human behavior and its potential role in sustainable development

• Teaching materials: Evolution of endurance running

Reading texts, videos and causal maps on the evolution of physical and cognitive traits for endurance running over the course of human evolution

• Understanding Agency – Lesson Collection

A lesson collection for learning about the origins, diversity, and flexibility of goal-directed behaviors.

• Constructing a causal map for the evolution of upright walking

• Video questions: Breeding foxes and social temperament

This video is about domestication – or “taming by breeding” – of foxes, a Russian research project that has been conducted since the 1950s.

• Inspiration Journey Collection

Scientific insight and video art through the Inspiration Journey project.

• Video questions – Kanzi making and using stone tools

The bonobo Kanzi was taught to make and use simple stone tools of the Oldowan culture. What can we conclude about the mental abilities

• NetLogo: Evolution of ethnocentrism

This model simulates the biological evolution of ethnocentrism in a population made up of multiple ethnicities.

• Reading text: Tool making and human evolution

A reading text about tool use and tool making in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors

• Human Behavior & Sustainable Development

A lesson collection for the Human Behavior & Sustainable Development module.

• Stone Age Hunting Game

A cooperation game that simulates the challenge of our stone age ancestors to acquire food in the African savanna

• Worksheet: Natural selection of traits for cooperative foraging

A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to cooperative foraging in a population over several

• Fill in the blanks: adaptations to cooperative foraging

A fill in the blanks activity on the natural selection of traits that enabled cooperative foraging in our ancestors

• Reading text: Cooperative foraging

A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors

• Cooperative activities with children and chimpanzees

A series of experiments with small children and chimpanzees to investigate their ability and motivation to engage in collaborative activities

• Video – Can chimpanzees coordinate their activities

In this short video, we observe how chimpanzees seem to be unable to spontaneously coordinate their activities to get food – something that humans

• Worksheets: Cooperation experiments with chimps and bonobos

In a series of experiments, anthropologists wanted to find out whether chimpanzees and bonobos work together and share a common source of food. Results

• Causal maps on the evolution of human traits

All causal maps on human evolution in one Google slide file

• Blackboard materials: Causal maps on human evolution

Materials for constructing causal maps about the evolution of human traits on the blackboard

• Chalkboard materials: Causal map on upright walking

Chalkboard materials for constructing a causal map for the evolution of upright walking

• Handout: Introduction to causal maps with the example of upright walking

A handout that introduces students to the causal map to map the evolution and development of traits, with the example of upright walking

• Worksheet: Natural selection of upright walking

A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to upright walking in a population over several

• Hominin skull measurement Google sheet for data entry and analysis

Google sheet template for entering and plotting the measurements of hominin fossil skulls

• Hominin skull measurement instructions

Instruction sheet for measuring cranial capacity, opisthion index and prognathism on fossil hominin skulls

• Causal map materials for skull morphology and related traits

Materials for constructing an initial causal map relating observable features of fossil hominin skulls, behaviors, and environmental conditions