Examples
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.
| Title | Category | Author | Created |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Steve Williams | 09/11/2009 - 12:50 |
| Poems of delights and other things An activity to develop conceptual exploration through short poems. Short audio file of children reading poems included. | Examples | Steve Williams | 10/10/2009 - 19:38 |
| Celebration [2] A concept stretcher using examples, counter examples and borderline cases | Examples | Roger Sutcliffe | 06/02/2009 - 12:19 |
| Lying Are some lies more justifiable than others? | Examples | Michelle Whitworth | 04/02/2009 - 13:47 |
| Heroes Exploring the concept of 'hero' with examples | Examples | James Nottingham | 07/08/2008 - 19:29 |
| Dreams Identifying contemporary uses of the word, dream | Examples | James Nottingham | 20/07/2008 - 09:30 |
| Real Understanding contemporary uses of ‘real’ | Examples | James Nottingham | 19/07/2008 - 17:13 |
| Growth | Examples | Roger Sutcliffe | 15/04/2008 - 16:59 |
| Fairness | Examples | Steve Williams | 15/04/2008 - 13:38 |