Beauty
A series of questions to stimulate discussion on beauty and ugliness.
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Develop concepts, explore meanings, enhance thinking
Our concept activities section is full of ideas and activities submitted by our contributors to help make your p4c sessions richer in concepts and deeper in meaning.
We don’t want to repeat the same ‘directions for use’ every time we post a new activity so we have put many of the directions, together with the principles behind each kind of concept-stretching activity, in a key document called ‘Create Concept Activities‘ in the right-hand column. We hope it will also help you to create your own concept activities.
Poems of delights and other things
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By Steve Williams
An activity to develop conceptual exploration through short poems. Short audio file of children reading poems included.
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By Jason Buckley
Link to an accessible but thought-provoking article on questions around 'bad morality', conscience and empathy. It's not suitable for classroom use, but it's a good example of philosophical skills at work.
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By Tim Sprod
A story with comprehensive background notes and activities to explore the concepts of rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities.
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By Joanna Haynes
Notes, activities and book recommendations on the concept of 'difference'.
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Loneliness and friendship
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By Jason Buckley
This is a brief dialogue raising ideas about friendship and loneliness.
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Knowing and Believing
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By IAPC
An exercise and discussion plan on these two essential and connected concepts.
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Wondering
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By IAPC
Two activities to stimulate young children to reflect on their wondering.
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By IAPC
An exercise to explore the concept of fairness.
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Purposes
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By IAPC
Exercises to explore the concept of 'purpose'.
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By IAPC
Exercises to explore 'truth by definition', 'truth from evidence', and 'the whole truth'.
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By IAPC
When do we change our minds and why?
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Writing poems to explore ‘unfairness’
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By Steve Williams
A little activity to explore the concept of unfairness through having children write and discuss their own verses of poetry. Contains audio files.
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By Roger Sutcliffe
A concept exercise most suitable for Yr 5 upwards.
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Topic:Questions
Fair and Ethical
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By Roger Sutcliffe
Concept exercise touching on the idea of fair trade. Most suitable for Yr 5 upwards.
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Keeping Promises
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By Sue Lyle
An exercise on promises and promise-keeping that could turn into an interesting enquiry.
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Unfinished Business: Sharing the Burden
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By Jason Buckley
A open-ended dialogue about sharing and fairness. A group of teenagers are planning a hiking trip. How should they share the load?
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By Jason Buckley
A open-ended dialogue about fairies and reality.
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By Jason Buckley
An activity to explore the question: 'What do you need to be happy?' There are some picture cards for young children to use but you could do the activity with any age group.
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‘It’s just a matter of opinion’
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By Jason Buckley
An activity to consider a set of opinions in relations to concepts such as truth, belief, reason, and so on.
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By Jason Buckley
Suggestions for using activities, as opposed to texts, images or objects, as stimuli for enquiries.
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By Steve Williams
A activity to explore the concept of 'forever' with children aged five and over.
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Lying
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By Michelle Whitworth
Are some lies justifiable?
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Use Activity Structures: Conceptlines
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By Karin Murris
A good way to explore concepts, explained with reference to the concept of freedom. This is a fuller explanation of one method of stretching concepts mentioned in the concept-stretcher key download.
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By Roger Sutcliffe
What do we mean by 'growing'?
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