• 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

• Observing differences in hominin skulls

An activity for students to explore and notice traits on fossil hominin skulls

• Human Societies as Collective Brains

Human intelligence seems to be a social, more than merely an individual phenomenon. What can we learn from comparing human societies to human brains?

• The Decentralized Self

The human brain is the seat of human agency, and yet this agency is caused by cellular agents unaware of our larger human goals.

• Evolution, Morality, Sustainability

A collection of lesson materials to explore the nature of human morality in the light of evolution and sustainability

• Thinking Tools

Thinking tools are used across diverse lessons to develop the skills of evolutionary anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and sustainability scientists

• Noticing Tool

The Noticing Tool helps us be aware of and interpret our experiences and behaviors in the present and to orient our behaviors towards valued

• Machine Behavior & Agency

How should we think about the actions and functions of machines in society? How can a science of machine behavior help us understand and

• Human needs, values, and wellbeing

Human Evolution Resources Human needs, values, and well-being What do humans need? What do you think is important for all or most humans to

• Cumulative culture

Human Evolution Resources Cumulative Culture Physicist Isaac Newton once said of the importance of his scientific accomplishments: “I could only look so far because

• Cooperation Games

What can we learn from cooperation games about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Cooperation games help us to investigate the causes, variations, and consequences

• Agency in Evolution Education

A page for researchers interested in the concept of agency as it relates to learning theories of evolution, including natural selection in biological systems.

• The Learning:Evolution Analogy

Learning and Evolution are processes that are both similar and different, in important respects. What can humans learn by comparing these processes?

• Goals, Behaviors, and Outcomes

How can we understand the causal relationships between goals, behaviors, and outcomes?

• Understanding Agency – Conceptual Attainment

An introductory h5p interactive sorting task for starting a conversation on the diversity and complexity of understanding agency.

• Levin

An introduction to Michael Levin’s framework for understanding agency across biological and computational contexts.

• Tomasello

An overview of Tomasello’s 2022 framework for understanding the evolution of agency

• What Kind of Mind?

‘What Kind of Mind?’ provides teaching resources to introduce pupils to research ideas about animal minds.

• Community Science Lab Development

A Regional Workshop Model on Community Science Lab Development

• School in Society

A Regional Workshop model on School in Society.

• School Governance

A Regional Workshop Model on School Governance

• School Culture & Wellbeing

A Regional Workshop Model on School Culture & Wellbeing

• School Ecology

A Regional Workshop Model on School Ecology.

• OpenEvo H5P collection

A collection of interactive H5P activities around the themes of evolution, behavior, sustainability

• Participatory School Profiles

An Evolving Schools Regional Workshop Model on the participatory development of school profiles that can inform school improvement and global innovation research collaborations.

• What is behavior?

In this lesson students explore the concept of (human) behavior, its causes, and its relation to well-being and sustainable development.

• Curriculum Overload – Workshops

Resources for advancing a regional workshop on the topic of curriculum overload.

• Regional Workshop Models

Regional Workshop Models are collections of resources and ideas for teacher education and school innovation research groups to organize around as part of local

• Values domains interactive presentation MC questions

• Values card sort (images2)

• Cognitive biases functions_ethnocentrism,blindspot

• Cognitive biases functions_self-serving,bandwaggon,stereotyping

• Cognitive biases functions_confirmation,negativity,agentdetection

• Core Design Principles 4-6 mechanisms and symptoms sorting

• Core Design Principles 1-3 mechanisms and symptoms sorting

• The Evolution of Number Systems and Quantification

A collection of resources for understanding the evolutionary origins and cultural diversity of number systems and ways of quantifying the world around us.

• NetLogo Collection

The OpenEvo Collection of NetLogo Agent-Based Models

• TeachingBase Home

The OpenEvo TeachingBase provides a roadmap to our interdisciplinary collection of teaching resources.

• NetLogo: Island World

This model simulates the evolution of populations in an environment that is spatially structured. In such a situation, several evolutionary mechanisms operate, including migration,

• NetLogo: Evolution of resource use through behavior imitation

This model adds cultural evolutionary dynamics through behavior imitation to the evolution of resource use behavior.

• Structure of Knowledge Diagrams

Simple diagrams can help us map and understand the structures of knowledge in our world.

• Structures of Knowledge

Learning about Structures of Knowledge (SoK) is a foundation for interdisciplinary learning. SoK can be represented graphically in diagrams that help us understand and

• Teaching Human Behavior: A Guide to Lesson Development and Evaluation

The scientific fields of evolutionary anthropology and behavioral sciences have produced a wealth of new insights into the nature of human behavior, cognition and

• NetLogo: Evolution of resource use and social behavior (monitoring and punishment)

This model lets us explore how the appearance of certain social behaviors can affect evolutionary population dynamics.

• Analyzing social-ecological systems

In this lesson, students analyze a select real-world social-ecological system by looking at factors of the resource(s) and ecosystem, resource user behaviors, and governance,

• Evolution, Cooperation, and Sustainability

A lesson collection on evolution, cooperation, and sustainability

• Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School

Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School – a pre-service primary teacher module

• Prosocial Youth Self-Study

The core self-study module for entering the Prosocial Youth ecosystem of ideas and resources.

• A Teacher’s Guide to Evolution, Behavior, and Sustainability Science

Our interdisciplinary teacher’s guide outlines our educational design concept. It provides introductory readings around core concepts of human sciences and ideas for exploring them

• Payoff matrices

Payoff matrices can help us analyze the behavioral strategies and possible outcomes in diverse situations across biology and society.

• Causal mapping

Causal mapping helps us reflect on the interdependent relationships between agents and entities within complex systems.

• Analogy mapping

Analogy mapping is a tool for thinking about similarities and differences between different concepts or phenomena.

• Why human behavior is at the center of education

Dustin Eirdosh is a researcher in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Psychology, in Leipzig, Germany and

• Tinbergen’s Questions

Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior, and the causal interactions in social-ecological systems to address local, regional and global sustainability

• Our Mind

What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Understanding the causes of our perceptions, intuitions, and

• Computer Models

What can we learn from computer models about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Computer models allow us to observe and investigate the influence of

• Governing the Commons

What can we learn from communities around the world managing shared resources about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Exploring diverse sustainability dilemmas in the

• Cultural Diversity

What can we learn from the diversity of human cultures about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Studying the behaviors of humans around the world

• Child Development

What can we learn from children about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? The development of social and cognitive abilities in the course of a

• Cross-Species Comparisons

What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability? Comparing traits of humans and other species

• Ancient Ancestors

What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability? Exploring the characteristics of our ancestors, their living conditions, and the

• Community Science Field Guide to School Culture

Schools are central social environments for young people to grow and develop themselves. How schools are governed, and which norms, values, and institutions get

• Human Origins Lab

The Human Origins Lab from Ancient Ancestors.

• Life with other groups

Human Evolution Resources Life with other groups The evolution and history of our species is not only characterized by living in isolated and small

• Symbols and language

Human Evolution Resources Symbols and Language Human language and our capacity for symbolic thinking are probably among the most challenging set of human traits

• Life in groups

Human Evolution Resources Life in groups For our ancestors since Homo erectus, the survival and raising of offspring depended more and more on the

• Gesturing and shared attention

Human Evolution Resources Gesturing and shared attention Even before children begin to speak, they are already communicating with the people around them: with the

• Agriculture and domestication

Human Evolution Resources Agriculture and domestication For most of our evolutionary history, our species fed on the hunting and gathering of animals and plants

• Emotions

Human Evolution Resources Emotions What is an emotion? What are emotions? How would you define the term? What characterizes emotions? What are some examples

• Behaviors of our mind

Human Evolution Resources Behaviors of our mind We can pretty easily explain the evolution of traits such as upright walking, and the differences and

• Gene-Culture Co-Evolution

Human Evolution Resources Gene-culture Co-evolution Biological evolution and cultural evolution are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they can influence each other. Genetically evolved

• Cultural evolution

Human Evolution Resources Cultural Evolution At Darwin’s time, nothing was known about genes. Darwin and others only knew from observations in the world that

• Creativity and flexibility

Human Evolution Resources Creativity and flexibility Many traits are strongly influenced by genetic inheritance. Through random mutations in the genome, new features and traits

• Childhood, teaching, learning

Human Evolution Resources Childhood, teaching, learning Primates, and apes in particular, have a long developmental phase (relative to the total lifespan) compared to other

• Endurance Running

Human Evolution Resources Evolution of endurance running Many features of our body and our physiology suggest that they are not merely adaptations to upright

• Early stone tools

Human Evolution Resources Early stone tools For a long time it was thought that the use and manufacture of tools are features that distinguish

• Born good? Babies help unlock the origins of morality

Can infants tell right from wrong? And if so, how would you know? Come to Yale’s baby lab. Lesley Stahl reports.

• Hominins

Human Evolution Resources Hominins The Hominini include all members of the lineage that separates us from our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. The only surviving

• Brain size

Human Evolution Resources Brain Size One of the most striking and well-known features that characterize our species is the size of our brain. The

• Content Anchors

Content anchors reflect the concepts, methods, and perspectives of evolutionary anthropology, behavioral, and sustainability sciences.

• Upright Walking

Human Evolution Resources Evolution of upright walking Changes in environmental conditions About 6 million years ago, a global change in the climate gradually began.

• Human Evolution Resources

Our collection of resources for learning about human origins and evolution

• Exploring values

This lesson is about exploring the concept of values with students and having them identify and reflect on what they personally value, or what

• Public Goods Game

With these teaching materials, students can be introduced to game theory in general, as well as a concrete method, the public goods game. The

• Three Mexican fisheries

Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while

• Exploring the Design Principles for Cooperation

Students explore the principles that allow groups to work together and achieve common goals, applying them to the groups that they are a part

• What motivates people to save energy

A set of behavioral experiments to find out what motivates people to save electricity, exploring the roles of monetary incentives, social norms, appeals to

• Perception of eyes and prosocial behavior

A behavioral experiment that tells us about the role of unconscious perception, particularly the perception of human eyes, on human social behavior.

• Climate Change Game

A cooperation game that lets students experience some of the challenges of cooperation in addressing global climate change

• Collective Action Puzzle Game

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.

• Commons game

In a classroom simulation game with changing conditions students develop strategies for the use of a common resource so that the profit for the

• Chimps or children – who is better at sharing resources?

A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.

• True stories of people who left radical movements

In this unit students explore stories of people who have left a radical movement, or deliberately discuss with representatives of the “other side” and

• Discussion guide about moral issues

Lesson plan and worksheets to apply understandings of moral psychology in classroom discussions about ethical issues

• Honeybee Democracy

Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups

• Two stories of capitalism

Students explore two contrasting stories about the benefits and failures of capitalism, identify the moral intuitions behind each story, and write a third story