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Starting Materials

Starting materials and lesson plans

This section is a library of starting materials, recommended resources, original stories, lesson plans, and a host of other items to help you bring about great philosophical inquiries.

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The Goodness Calculator

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This session uses the central premise of the TV show, ‘The Good Place’ to stimulate a reflective enquiry that takes place over the course of a week.

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Spies

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Espionage is an interesting and exciting entrance point to a discussion of responsibility and whether ‘the end justifies the means’.

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Running Out Of A Job

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A philosophy-in-role enquiry where pupils must solve a dilemma by weighing up short term gain with long term planning.

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Plato’s Cave

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This session is on one of philosophy’s most famous thought experiments - Plato’s cave. It’s a very provocative thought experiment which can entertain endless discussion on themes as diverse as knowledge acquisition, the truth of our values, perceptions and political systems.

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