Examples

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Concept stretching with words, statements and situations

A TRIED-AND-TESTED approach to exploring concepts is to generate possible examples of a given concept and write them down for your group to ponder. You would include items you think are good examples of the concept, along with items that might be contrary examples and borderline cases. In this section we present words, statements and situations you could present to your pupils. The 'Introduction' key document will explain how to use the examples.

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Good and Bad
Exercises with which to explore the different uses of the words "Good" and "Bad". 		Examples, IAPC Materials IAPC 03/02/2012
Knowing and Believing
An exercise and discussion plan on these two essential and connected concepts. 		Examples, IAPC Materials IAPC 03/02/2012
Fair
An exercise to explore the concept of fairness 		Examples, IAPC Materials IAPC 02/02/2012
Happiness
An activity to explore the question: 'What do you need to be happy?' There are some picture cards for young children to use but you could do the activity with any age group 		Examples Jason Buckley 07/09/2011
'It's just a matter of opinion'
An activity to consider a set of opinions in relations to concepts such as truth, belief, reason, and so on. 		Examples, Opinions, Notes and Activities Jason Buckley 30/03/2011
'It just happened!'
An exercise to explore the use of this term and related concepts such as cause, coincidence, chance and intention. 		Examples Steve Williams 29/03/2011
Writing poems to explore 'unfairness'
A little activity to explore the concept of unfairness through having children write and discuss their own verses of poetry. Contains audio files. 		Examples, Thinking and Writing Steve Williams 09/11/2009
Poems of delights and other things
An activity to develop conceptual exploration through short poems. Short audio file of children reading poems included. 		Examples, Thinking and Writing Steve Williams 10/10/2009
Celebration [2]
A concept stretcher using examples, counter examples and borderline cases 		Examples Roger Sutcliffe 06/02/2009
Lying
Are some lies more justifiable than others? 		Examples Michelle Whitworth 04/02/2009
Heroes
Exploring the concept of 'hero' with examples 		Examples James Nottingham 07/08/2008
Dreams
Identifying contemporary uses of the word, dream 		Examples James Nottingham 20/07/2008
Real
Understanding contemporary uses of ‘real’ 		Examples James Nottingham 19/07/2008
Growth
 Examples Roger Sutcliffe 15/04/2008
Fairness
 Examples Steve Williams 15/04/2008