Pages in the attached handout to each student in the class. I distribute equally 1 of the 4 different Students see the role that evolution likely played in shaping Interesting activity: 'This activity is designed to help Searching Google for parental gender bias - A cool yet simple demo for the classroom or beyond, from David Myers Įvolution shapes social behavior - Joy Drinnon offers this Women tend to write associative words that fit a 'feminine schematic' (e.g., bow-hair nail-polish) while men tend to list words that fit a more 'masculine schematic' (e.g., bow-arrow nail-hammer). Students write down each word as well as the first word they freely associate with each word. The instructor reads six homonyms (nail, bow, club, band, lash, ring) aloud one at a time. Gender influences our interpretations of the world - This nice, simple demonstration was just presented in the most recent edition of Teaching of Psychology. Personal space and proxemics - an online, interactive exercise for your students Is she a woman? - a good class question and accompanying articleĮxploring dimensions of gender, sex, and attraction - Using the Gender Unicorn! objects' -īeth Morling suggests some ways to introduce and demonstrate objectification to your students.
