Science
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Could you be friends a with a robot? A PowerPoint slideshow to stimulate discussions around artificial intelligence, free will, friendship and humanity. |
Notes and Activities | The Editor | 22/02/2012 |
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Answers, Questions and Truth Here are two activities with which to explore children's attitudes to questions and to ask them to consider degrees of truth in answers to a questions. |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 03/02/2012 |
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Good Reasons Six exercises to introduce the notions of relevance, strength and sense with which to evaluate reasons. |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 03/02/2012 |
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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 |
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If ... Exercises with which to reflect on the logical, causal and imaginative uses of the word "if". |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 03/02/2012 |
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Knowing and Believing An exercise and discussion plan on these two essential and connected concepts. |
Examples, IAPC Materials | IAPC | 03/02/2012 |
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What’s on your mind? An illustration from an old journal of phrenology can be used to explore concepts of mind, body, science and pseudo science. Steve Bramall explains how. |
P4C Library | Steve Bramall | 01/02/2012 |
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Examples An exercise on giving examples |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 25/01/2012 |
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Kinds of Truth Exercises to explore 'truth by definition', 'truth from evidence', and 'the whole truth' |
IAPC Materials, Notes and Activities | IAPC | 25/01/2012 |
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Questions and Answers Activities to help children think about what makes good questions and answers and how to answer them. |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 25/01/2012 |
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Purposes Exercises to explore the concept of 'purpose' |
IAPC Materials, Notes and Activities | IAPC | 25/01/2012 |
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Changing one's mind When do we change our minds and why? |
IAPC Materials, Opinions | IAPC | 24/01/2012 |
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Similarities and Differences Thoughts and an exercise about similarities and differences with respect to ... |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 24/01/2012 |
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Possible and Impossible An activity for young children to develop awareness of these important concepts. |
Reasoning Concepts | Sara Stanley | 24/01/2012 |
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'Probably' Two exercises on, using the word 'probably' and the links to inductive reasoning. |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 26/10/2011 |
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Inferring Two exercises on inferring, the act of thinking beyond what is give. |
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts | IAPC | 26/10/2011 |
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Panel Discussions The method of 'panel discussion' provides a very useful and flexible discussion format. It also helps you work with very large groups. |
Community Dialogue | Steve Williams | 09/06/2011 |
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Forever A activity to explore the concept of 'forever' with children of five and over |
Notes and Activities | Steve Williams | 28/03/2011 |
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Concept Corners An ingenious activity that can be used to explore any concept. It has a lot of flexibility. |
Notes and Activities | Roger Sutcliffe | 03/03/2011 |
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Healthy and Unhealthy Ideas for a community of enquiry around the concepts of healthy and unhealthy food, and also the influence of advertising. (PDF attached) |
Lesson Outlines | Michelle Whitworth | 17/03/2010 |
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Kat’s Dilemma: a dialogue about drugs in sport A dialogue and supporting science work on drugs in sport. |
Scripts and Dialogues | Lynda Dunlop | 09/11/2009 |
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The limits and scope of science Discussion plan and two exercises to explore the concept of 'science' |
Questions | Rod Cunningham | 08/11/2009 |
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Evidence in science. A discussion plan and exercise about the concept of evidence in science |
Questions | Rod Cunningham | 08/11/2009 |
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Moving image resources for p4c A collection of moving image stimuli available on the Internet, from youtube, the BBC and others. |
Short Films, Recommended! | Nick Chandley | 29/10/2009 |
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Descartes Meditations A (very) abridged version of Descartes' classic philosophical text for use with p4c classes. |
Scripts and Dialogues | Steve Bramall | 06/03/2009 |