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Alan Alda hosts "The Human Spark", a three-part television series funded in part by NSF
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Why did our ancestors who made cave paintings in France thrive while Neanderthals died out? What do our closest living ancestors have to teach us about what it means to be human? How do images of the human brain reveal our faculties for language, the use of tools and the ability to forge social bonds? These questions and more are examined in "The Human Spark," a three-part television series funded in part by NSF. In this background briefing, host Alan Alda and the producers of the series discuss their interactions with dozens of scientists to get at the sources of human uniqueness through the lenses of neuroscience, anthropology, human evolution, child development and primatology. The series premieres on PBS stations Jan. 6, 13 and 20, 2010.

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
US NSF
Date Added:
12/23/2015
Analyzing text through storyboards
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Using a reality tlevision show format, students are given thems from a certain novel and create storyboards upon which to create the reality TV show. Prior to the lesson , the teacher pulls the stick(s) from certain cups that are labeled with each of the ELA standards. This way students are focused on what standrd they are working on that class period.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Economics
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Formative Assessment
Interactive
Lesson Plan
Reading
Unit of Study
Provider:
Teaching Channel
Date Added:
10/06/2015
The Anthropology of Biology
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This course applies the tools of anthropology to examine biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological enterprise, biodiversity conservation, pharmaceutical bioprospecting, and synthetic biology. It examines such social concerns such as bioterrorism, genetic modification, and cloning. It offers an anthropological inquiry into how the substances and explanations of biology—ecological, organismic, cellular, molecular, genetic, informatic—are changing. It examines such artifacts as cell lines, biodiversity databases, and artificial life models, and using primary sources in biology, social studies of the life sciences, and literary and cinematic materials, and asks how we might answer Erwin Schrodinger’s 1944 question, “What Is Life?” today.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Stefan Helmreich
Date Added:
02/09/2023
Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us
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Becoming Human is a fast-paced, irreverent introduction to evolutionary theory, especially human origins. The book is based on the Open2Study MOOC, 'Becoming Human,' created by Dr. Greg Downey and Open Universities Australia. The book discusses traces of evolution in our bodies, basic evolutionary theory from Darwin to the genomic revolution, sexual selection and reproduction, and how human brain development affects our evolution, including into the future. Copiously illustrated, with some interactive diagrams, videos of Dr. Downey presenting the material are also available through Open2Study.

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Enculture Press
Author:
Greg Downey
Date Added:
10/16/2017
Being 13: Inside the Secret World of Teens
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This article discusses the CNN video report #Being13 which was a study of social networking and teens.  The article links to the video report and highlights some of the findings.

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Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Character Education
Education
Health Science
Psychology
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Reference Material
Provider:
Cable News Network
Date Added:
04/10/2016
A Class Divided
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The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.

Subject:
Character Education
Education
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
FRONTLINE
Date Added:
10/13/2016
Columbus Day vs Leif Erikson Day: Who 'Discovered' America?
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A 2018 TIme Magazine Article that explores the evidence for early European Exploration throughout North America.

Subject:
Archaeology
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
U.S. History
World History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Time Magazine
Olivia B
Date Added:
07/31/2022
Contested Places
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Contested Places is a Siftr-based activity that engages students in exploring their school, neighborhood, or city as a contested place. You can view and comment on other people's examples or upload your own. 
In this activity your task is to locate places and spaces that are contested. You might ask: How do different people view and use this place? What uses cause conflict? How are these conflicts enacted and resolved? Who has power in this place? Who and what is excluded from this place? You may want to look at how people behave or act in the place, but don't forget to also pay attention to what you don't see.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Economics
Environmental Literacy and Sustainability
Geography
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Interactive
Learning Task
Lesson Plan
Other
Provider:
Field Day
Date Added:
02/29/2016
Cultures of Computing, Fall 2011
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This course examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices that create them. Students read classic texts in computer science along with cultural analyses of computing history and contemporary configurations. It explores the history of automata, automation and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; robots, cyborgs, and artificial life; creation and commoditization of the personal computer; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; hackers and gamers; technobodies and virtual sociality. Emphasis is placed on how ideas about gender and other social differences shape labor practices, models of cognition, hacking culture, and social media.

Subject:
Computer Science
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Stefan Helmreich
Date Added:
01/01/2011
Elementary School Educational Lesson Plan on Dynamics of Bullying
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The goal of this lesson developed by Pacer's National Bullying Prevention Center is to help elementary-age students understand what bullying is and the role they can plan in stopping it. It includes a detailed lesson plan as well as links to video segments which may be useful. It also includes scenarios that students could role play as they consider how they might act in stopping bullying.

Subject:
Psychology
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Pacer's National Bullying Prevention Center
Date Added:
08/15/2022
Examining Groupthink in Texts
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This assignment ties thematically into texts concerning Mob Mentality, Cliques, and Groupthink. Students are asked to evaluate the psychology behind groupthink and relate it to written and world texts they have encountered.

Subject:
Psychology
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Nan Danehower
Date Added:
03/08/2017
Formative Assessment Explainer Video and Supplement
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Educators use formative assessment to continually reflect and improve their skills related to these practices. The Formative Assessment video is a resource that can be used to support educators' professional development related to assessment literacy. Use the Video Supplement & Resource Guide to enhance your facilitation of this professional development opportunity.

Subject:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Art and Design
Biology
Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Character Education
Chemistry
Civics and Government
Computer Science
Early Learning
Earth and Space Science
Economics
Education
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
Ethnic Studies
Family and Consumer Sciences
Fine Arts
Geography
Geology
Health Science
Life Science
Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship
Mathematics
Nutrition Education
Performing and Visual Arts
Physical Science
Physics
Psychology
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Technology and Engineering
World Cultures
World Languages
Material Type:
Formative Assessment
Provider:
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Date Added:
03/03/2017
GSS based data analysis
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Students will write and present a paper which consists of a review of literature and an empirical/statistical test of the relation between specific variables in the field of social stratification.

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Spring 2013
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" This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of life, in both medicine and biology. After grounding our conversation in accounts of natural history and medicine that predate the rise of biology as a discipline, we explore modes of theorizing historical and contemporary bioscience. Drawing on the work of historian William Coleman, we examine the forms, functions, and transformations of biological and medical objects of study. Along the way we treat the history of heredity, molecular biology, race, medicine in the colonies and the metropole, and bioeconomic exchange. We read anthropological literature on old and new forms of biopower, at scales from the molecular to the organismic to the global. The course includes readings from the HASTS Common Exam List. The aim of this seminar is to train students to be participants in scholarly debates in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences about the nature of life, the body, and biomedicine."

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Helmreich, Stefan
Jones, David
Date Added:
01/01/2013
The History of Our Tribe: Hominini
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Where did we come from? What were our ancestors like? Why do we differ from other animals? How do scientists trace and construct our evolutionary history? The History of Our Tribe: Hominini provides answers to these questions and more. The book explores the field of paleoanthropology past and present. Beginning over 65 million years ago, Welker traces the evolution of our species, the environments and selective forces that shaped our ancestors, their physical and cultural adaptations, and the people and places involved with their discovery and study. It is designed as a textbook for a course on Human Evolution but can also serve as an introductory text for relevant sections of courses in Biological or General Anthropology or general interest. It is both a comprehensive technical reference for relevant terms, theories, methods, and species and an overview of the people, places, and discoveries that have imbued paleoanthropology with such fascination, romance, and mystery.

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
State University of New York
Provider Set:
OpenSUNY Textbooks
Author:
Barbara Welker
Date Added:
07/10/2017
Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd edition)
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This first and only university textbook of human security, intended as an introductory text from senior undergraduate level up, and includes chapters by 24 authors that encompass the full spectrum of disciplines contributing to the human security field. It is based on the four-pillar model of socio-political security, economic security, environmental security and health security. The chapters include learning outcomes, extension activities, and suggested readings; a comprehensive glossary lists key terms used throughout the book. This textbook can be used in courses on international studies and relations, political studies, history, human geography, anthropology and human ecology, futures studies, applied social studies, public health, and more.

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Alexander Lautensach and Sabina Lautensach
Date Added:
06/18/2021
Illegal Software Installation: Tracking software piracy rates around the world
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Spreadsheets across the Curriculum Module. Students use spreadsheets to analyze data on software piracy rates in various regions throughout the world

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Maryann Allen
Date Added:
02/10/2023
The Impact of Culture on Connecting to the Environment
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Developing environmentally literate citizens is the primary goal of environmental science.  One of the four components of environmental literacy is "connecting to nature".  Culture plays a key role in the way individuals connect to their environment.  Understanding culture also supports the development of a culturally responsive classroom and helps students develop an understanding of environmental justice, another key concept of environmental science.  This lesson helps students explore their own culture and compare and contrast it with other cultures.

Subject:
Biology
Geography
Life Science
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Interactive
Learning Task
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Annette Schwalenberg (Environmental Science Teacher)
Date Added:
04/28/2017