This document outlines an activity for students to complete in groups to discuss the relationship between human nature and culture. The activity includes: 1) Distinguishing the concepts of nature and culture and understanding culture as essential to defining humans. 2) Answering questions about what distinguishes and approaches humans from other animals, whether there is a human nature or essence, and if natural and cultural aspects can be separated in humans. 3) Researching animals that exhibit human-like behaviors such as communication to discuss similarities and differences between humans and other species.

1. Matriz de objetos de avaliação do PAS 1ª Etapa:
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2.  Grup work:
Groups of 3 or 4 students.
The Human Being
axles:
1.1 - NATURE AND CULTURE
1.2 - BODY AND PSYCHISM
Topics and skills to be developed by the students:
a) Distinguish between the concepts of nature and culture;
b) Understand the notion of culture as essential to the definition of human
c) Understand that, in humans, the biological characteristics of nature and
cultural data are deeply associated.

3.  Answer the following questions:
1 - What distinguishes humans from other animals?
2 - What approaches humans from other animals?
3 - Is there a human nature? A human essence? In
humans, is it possible to distinguish what is
natural from what is cultural?
4 – Can human groups take advantage of natural
resources without thinking of its limits?
5 - Should laws be applied to all individuals equally,
without regard to the differences of the natural
environments in which they live? Or without
taking into account the cultural particularities in
which they were educated?

4.  Research animals with human behaviours.
Ex.: Birds that can speak and sing, gorilas that use
sign language, dolfins that comunicate to
humans...