Getting Started
Choosing and sharing stimuli, preparing for inquiry
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES of different using different kinds of stimuli such as: dialogues, stories, images and objects to stimulate questioning and inquiry? What criteria might guide your choices? In this section, our contributors share their suggestions and experiences to help you choose suitable material.
Having chosen a stimulus, how will you share it with your group and encourage some initial thinking and understanding? Will you establish 'ground rules' or reviewable procedures to prepare them for the discipline of inquiry? And what considerations will you give to the environment and to seating arrangements.
Read on or consider becoming a contributor to share your ideas.
| Title | Category | Author | Created |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community of Enquiry Framework A simple framework for those beginning to use communities of enquiry | Getting Started | Nick Chandley | 29/09/2009 - 16:45 |
| Ideas for writing Ideas to get children writing. The writing easily into inquiry. | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 26/09/2009 - 20:22 |
| Writing and thinking booklet for pupils A booklet to encourage children to care for their thoughts through writing. | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 26/09/2009 - 20:07 |
| Would you dare?: a nursery question board activity An activity to get young children to consider generalisations and 'if ... then' situations. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 24/05/2009 - 21:54 |
| Voting cards for opinions in the early years The following routine helps young children to keep opinions consistent and link reasons with opinions | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 04/05/2009 - 09:59 |
| A P4C Inquiry Planner A useful framework to help you plan and assess your p4c sessions. | Getting Started | Steve Bramall | 08/03/2009 - 14:44 |
| Creating rules for dialogue A great ways to establish rules for dialogue with children -- make them a topic of inquiry. Useful suggestions and materials. | Getting Started | Steve Bramall | 06/03/2009 - 14:05 |
| Rhymes about asking and telling A couple of rhymes to ecnourage children to share thoughts and questions and to understand 'questions' and statements' | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 04/02/2009 - 16:44 |
| Michelle Whitworth's tips for using stimuli Tips for different ways of presenting and using a wide variety variety of stimulus material for p4c | Getting Started | Michelle Whitworth | 03/02/2009 - 23:09 |
| Making an Evilometer A concept stretcher, warm up activity or stimulus for a p4c session | Getting Started | Jason Buckley | 03/02/2009 - 15:18 |
| Using pupil-devised questionnaires to stimulate p4c Creating and analysing questionnares can be a useful stimulus for philosophical questioning. Samples and advice are provided. | Getting Started | Robyn Spencer | 26/11/2008 - 22:16 |
| Goodies and baddies in the nursery A recorded dialogue to show how young children use, through play, their knowledge and understanding of fairy tale characters and how their conversation can help me to develop their thinking. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 26/11/2008 - 14:19 |
| You Choose: involving parents in p4c The item describes a way to involve the parents of very young children in the critical and creative thinking of p4c. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 22/10/2008 - 10:20 |
| A nursery question board Introducing the philosophical skill of making a choice and giving a reason with children in nursery. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 08/10/2008 - 19:13 |
| The benefits of using written dialogues Benefits of choosing a written dialogue as a stimulus and of having pupils write dialogues | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 06/09/2008 - 20:50 |
| Listening Skills: 10 practical tips Ten practical suggestions to improve listening in your classroom. | Getting Started | Will Ord | 14/08/2008 - 20:23 |
| Stimuli: 10 things to consider Ideas about choosing appropriate stimuli | Getting Started | Will Ord | 13/08/2008 - 23:19 |