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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Nature Versus Nurture O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand the nature-versus-nurture debate.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature Versus Nurture Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Which dictates our existence? Is it our genetic makeup or the environment we grow up in? Kevin Davies offers an update on this long-standing debate, from the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: A Nature and Nurture Walk in Mendel Park

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a walk in the animated "Mendel Park" to discover which traits are genetic and which are a combination of genetics and upbringing.
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Other

Nurture Is Not the Same as Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpt from book by Judith Harris which argues that parents do not have as much influence as peers in child development.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Sociology: Socialization

For Students 9th - 10th
Sociology instructional unit on socialization. Students learn theories about human behavior and self development through audio, text, and instructional activities. Links to supplemental reading.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Science of the Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduce students to how the body looks and works with these texts on biology and genetics. This collection includes 20 Grade-Leveled texts (5-10) on the topic of Science of the Body. [Free account registration required for specific...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

For Students 9th - 10th
In this novel, Louise dreams of leaving her tiny island home in Chesapeake Bay, but first she must escape the shadow of her twin sister who seems to rob her of everything. Selected (11) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "Jacob...

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