SOCIAL EXPERIMENT #2 (HUMAN NATURE)
Name:____________________________
Class:
What Would You DO?
BIG QUESTION: What would you do if you had enough of something, but you wanted more, just for the sake of having more?
For this lesson, the multi-colored discs represent food, and the coins represent money.
1 disc = food for 1 week
You can buy 10 discs with one nickel (5 cents)
Step 1. ANALYZE how much food and money each group has, and suppose they get this much EVERY MONTH. Do they have enough food/money to get them through one month?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 2. INFER what each group will do. Will they be satisfied with what they have?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 3. JUSTIFY why you think the groups did what they did. What is the right thing to do? WHAT does this tell us about the last step of the pyramid? THINK HARD!!!_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Class:
What Would You DO?
BIG QUESTION: What would you do if you had enough of something, but you wanted more, just for the sake of having more?
For this lesson, the multi-colored discs represent food, and the coins represent money.
1 disc = food for 1 week
You can buy 10 discs with one nickel (5 cents)
Step 1. ANALYZE how much food and money each group has, and suppose they get this much EVERY MONTH. Do they have enough food/money to get them through one month?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 2. INFER what each group will do. Will they be satisfied with what they have?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 3. JUSTIFY why you think the groups did what they did. What is the right thing to do? WHAT does this tell us about the last step of the pyramid? THINK HARD!!!_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________