With support from the National Science Foundation, Science NetLinks has developed and reviewed a number of resources around the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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6-8 | Hands-On
In this activity, students have an opportunity to compare the human system of calling balls and strikes with the electronic umpire system.
6-8 | Interactive
The goal of this lesson is to have students investigate both genetic and societal consequences of these often-artificial and evolving classifications.
6-8
In this lesson, students will explore systems; they will think about their schools as systems, focusing on a social rather than scientific understanding of the concept.
6-8
In this lesson, students will confront age-related stereotypes, explore how stereotyping impacts their lives, and discuss how they can make changes to reduce overgeneralizations, unfair assumptions, and uncritical judgments about groups.
9-12 | Website
In this lesson, students will learn that anthropology is divided into four main subdivisions and anthropologists often work in more than one subdivision at the same time.
9-12
In this lesson, students will explore some of the effects that immigration in the United States has had on immigrants and American society as a whole.
9-12
This lesson helps students understand how scientists study the genetic and environmental factors that interact to produce variation in behavior across a population.
6-12 | Website
This resource, developed by The Center for Desert Archaeology, consists of online exhibits that illustrate key concepts in preservation archaeology and the prehistory of the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest.
9-12 | Website
This project, created by an archaeologist and a ceramicist, is multidisciplinary in nature and introduces students to Greek vase painting and culture.
9-12 | Website
Chris Wetzel, from the Rhodes College Department of Psychology, created this resource to help you understand the concept of randomness by having them try to behave randomly.
9-12 | Teaching Aid
From EconEdLink, this resource is actually a lesson in which students, using poverty rate as a measure of development, compare how resources are allocated to three economic sectors: agriculture, industry, and service.
9-12 | Website
In this tool, students are introduced to kinship, defined as the most basic principle of organizing individuals into social groups, roles, and categories.
9-12 | Interactive
The goal of this tool is to provide a set of web-based, standards-compliant resources for students and teachers of probability and statistics.
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Some of the above content was created with support from the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.