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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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Brave Boys

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This is a thought-provoking resource that will prompt questions about bravery, fear, cowardice, duty, conscience, condemnation and conformity.

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The Test

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With this resource, you and your pupils can raise questions about cheating, fairness and the keeping of secrets. What would they do to gain an advantage in a competition?

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Friends Forever

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Friends Forever is invitation to enquire into the concept of friendship. It starts with a thought experiment but extends beyond that into more general areas.

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Mars Transporter

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What is personal identity? What does it mean to be human? Could a replication of you really be you? Would it remain a duplicate you as time went by?

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