What makes humans unique? Assessment

This assessment can be completed after lessons considering what it is that makes human beings different to other species of animals if anything! They will need to have considered similarities and differences between humans and animals (i.e. emotions, soul, pleasure/pain, ability to discuss and answer ultimate questions, Universal Declaration of Human Rights etc). Using resources like the Simpsons episode ‘Bart sells his soul’ can be useful in the soul debate, especially when you compare that to the Buddhist view that we do not have a soul and the story of Nagasena’s Chariot.