Notes and Activities
Notes on concepts and concept stretching activities
This section is not linked with the guidelines on our concept stretcher key documents. Items here include:
- Notes on particular concepts outlining some common philosophical approaches to them and questions surrounding them
- Self-explanatory concept-stretching activities
- Combinations of the two
The concept-stretcher resources on this page are organised in a simple table. Sort the table using the column headings.
| Title | Category | Author | Created |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creating rules for dialogue A great ways to establish rules for dialogue with children -- make them a topic of inquiry. Useful suggestions and materials. | Notes and Activities | Steve Bramall | 06/03/2009 - 14:05 |
| Conceptlines A good way to explore concepts, explained with reference to the concept of freedom. This is an fuller explanation of one method of stretching concepts mentioned in the concept-stretcher key download. | Notes and Activities | Karin Murris | 15/02/2009 - 21:39 |
| Colour Notes, activities and recommendations on the concept of colour. | Notes and Activities | Joanna Haynes | 05/02/2009 - 13:51 |
| Difference Notes, activities and book recommendations about on the concept of 'difference' | Notes and Activities | Joanna Haynes | 05/02/2009 - 12:09 |
| Rhymes about asking and telling A couple of rhymes to ecnourage children to share thoughts and questions and to understand 'questions' and statements' | Notes and Activities | Steve Williams | 04/02/2009 - 16:44 |
| Making an Evilometer A concept stretcher, warm up activity or stimulus for a p4c session | Notes and Activities | Jason Buckley | 03/02/2009 - 15:18 |
| Anger An concept-stretcher from Storywise, by Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris | Notes and Activities | Karin Murris | 17/09/2008 - 11:48 |
| Dreaming An concept-stretcher from Storywise, by Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris | Notes and Activities | Karin Murris | 17/09/2008 - 11:22 |