Tag: teaching
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Free Resource: The (Interactive) Human Family Tree
When developing a human evolution module for any level, it’s important to present data in a range of formats to maximise your students’ engagement. While teaching Human Evolution and Diversity at Durham University, a free and incredibly useful tool I often used was the Smithsonian’s interactive Human Family Tree. One of the first lessons I…
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Free Resource: Teaching Evolution With Sticky-Notes
As a postgraduate teaching assistant at Durham University’s Anthropology Department, part of my job was to plan and deliver plenary sessions for our Human Evolution and Diversity Module. This often meant balancing my own creativity and the class dynamic with academically-backed activities. While researching hands-on options for demonstrating allele frequency within populations, I came across…
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Embodiment (and how to use it)
When was the last time your brain thought about itself? When was the last time you noticed your skeleton inside you? It’s easy to forget that these parts of our bodies are intrinsic parts of ourselves. Our skeletons seem inorganic and passive; our thoughts seem separated from our physical bodies. But if our brains and…
The Brains and Bones Project 