What Kind of Mind: Lesson 6 Testing Your Ideas
Creators: name: Ball, Derek
name: Gomez, Juan-Carlos
name: Seed, Amanda
name: Collins, Susan
name: Smith, Jessica
name: Zdrovstova, Natalia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psychological methodology, design and analysis
Cognition
Learning, motivation and emotion
Memory and attention
Phenomenology
Philosophy of cognition
Philosophy of mind (excl. cognition)
Other education not elsewhere classified
Other psychology not elsewhere classified

description: <strong>Lesson 6: Testing Your Ideas</strong> Lesson 6 brings together much of the information and thought from across the program, focusing on how researchers generates questions and how they test their hypothesis – pupils are encouraged to develop research questions and hypothesis for the experiments previously studied. Other questions include: How do you pick out the key information from an experiment? How have your ideas changed about intelligence and animal minds? <strong>Skills:</strong> Curriculum for Excellence SCN 2-01a, SCN 2-11a, SCN 2-14a, SCN 2-14b, SCN 2-20a, SCN 2-20b Analysing and evaluating previous topics – developing models, questions and solving problems Providing structured and well-reasoned arguments, using evidence Independent and group work Reflection and synthesizing <strong>Key Resources:</strong> Lesson slides, L6: Lesson slides prompting discussion through pictures and questions. Associated video links also attached. Lesson plan, L6: Summary of the lesson aims and tasks, providing an overview of the skills and resources required. Teacher notes, L6: More detailed information about the lesson, providing detailed task instructions and further information for teachers. Annotated slides, L6: Additional information attached to the relevant slide. Worksheets: (These resources can also be easily printed as part of the student work booklet) Developing questions worksheet: Activity sheet for the researcher questions task on slide 9. ”How Intelligent?” scale: Measure of how intelligence certain things are. This is a repeat of lesson one (so resource can be reused from there if possible), allowing pupils to see how their ideas about animals have changed. Associated with slide 25. Images for intelligence task: Images for the above task. Post-program pupil questionnaire: Reflective questionnaire for pupils after the lessons. This can be used by teachers to measure development. Researchers would also be extremely grateful if these questionnaires could be passed on to aid further research. Post-program Teacher Questionnaire: Questionnaire for teachers to complete after leading the sessions. As above, please pass this on to the researchers. <strong>Additional resources: </strong> Credits for images: Details of photographers etc. Acknowledgements: Further details and credits. <strong>Printable resources for all lessons:</strong> Student workbook: This booklet contains all of the written class activities for students, condensing the resources into a booklet of five sheets of paper (so 20, A5 pages for the students to work on). Although the PDF may look like the pages are in an *interesting* order, if printed correctly they will fold into the booklet. To do this, ensure that printing is double sided, and that the printer is set to flip pages on the short edge. Student prints: This printing resource contains all of the individual sheets to be used by the students throughout the project such as the images to be stuck into their booklets and the researcher questionnaires. The document is designed to be printed double sided, meaning that there are some blank pages so individual resources can be separated. [Page breakdown: (P1-2) Pre-program questionnaire, (P3-P4) Post-program questionnaire, (P5) Lesson 1 Images for intelligence task, (P6) Blank, (P7) Lesson 3 Images for the family tree task, (P8) Blank, (P9) Lesson 6 Images for intelligence task.] Teacher prints: This printing resource contains all sheets the teachers will use throughout the project including teacher questionnaires and answer sheets. The document is designed to be printed double sided, meaning that there are some blank pages so that each individual resource can be separated. [Page breakdown: (P1-P4) Pre-program questionnaire, (P5-P9) Post-program questionnaire, (P10) blank, (P11) Lesson 3 answers, (P12) blank, (P13) Lesson 4 communication task.] <strong>"Living Links" Learning Programme at RZSS</strong> A bespoke learning programme of interactive, interdisciplinary and online sessions on themes from <em>What Kind of Mind?</em> has been developed by the "Living Links" collaboration between the University of St Andrews and RZSS aiming to deepen learners' connections with nature, increase awareness of how our minds affect our health and wellbeing, and promote an understanding of the role of research in scientific development. This free resource can be found on the RZSS Discovery and Learning ZOOdle (Zoo "Digital Learning Environment") website at https://discover.rzss.org.uk/livinglinks