Thinking about rubbish
This resource for children in primary schools by James Nottingham's Challenging Learning Team will involve them in observing, categorising, defining, problem-solving and reflecting on themselves as part of the wider society.
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 key document will explain how to use the examples.
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This resource for children in primary schools by James Nottingham's Challenging Learning Team will involve them in observing, categorising, defining, problem-solving and reflecting on themselves as part of the wider society.
What is a toy? Can all toys be played with? Can only toys be played with? What different kinds of toys are there?
This resource for children in the Early Years by James Nottingham's Challenging Learning Team will them in observing, categorising, defining and imagining.
Exploring contemporary uses of ‘real’.
An activity to explore the concept of reality.
An exercise to explore the use of this term and related concepts such as cause, coincidence, chance and intention.
Exercises with which to explore the different uses of the words "good" and "bad".