P4C & Music
A collection of musical stimuli with some ideas for use.
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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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Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
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By James Nottingham
Discussion ideas for parents and teachers.
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Topic:Picture Books
Jeg Går En Tur – A self-portrait by Lasse Gjertsen
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By James Nottingham
A stimulating three-minute video made by a student in Norway. Thought-provoking themes for discussion with teenagers.
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By James Nottingham
Ideas for using the popular story by Jane Donaldson.
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Topic:Picture Books
Teaching Notes for Harrison Bergeron
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By Tim Sprod
Ideas to support dialogue issues of equality, discrimination and freedom following a reading of Kurt Vonnegut's classic story.
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Topic:Lesson Outlines
Mark’s Dilemma
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By Darren Chetty
A story and ideas for discussion on the themes of race, identity, culture and representation.
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Topic:Scripts and Dialogues
Theme ideas to stimulate questioning
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By Sara Stanley
An extract from a session using 'The Last Noo-Noo' by Jill Murphy. They use an interesting way of theming ideas
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By Steve Bramall
A set of resources for investigating a range of concepts related to gardening and growing, food production and consumption.
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Topic:Scripts and Dialogues
Moving image resources for p4c
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By Nick Chandley
A collection of moving image stimuli available on the Internet, from youtube, the BBC and others.
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Topic:Recommended!Short Films
Fable: The dog and the wolf
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By Steve Williams
See our key document for ideas on how to use this collection of proverbs.
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By Michelle Whitworth
A scripted version of the well-known story with four alternative endings and suggestions for using it with a class.
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By Libby Ahluwalia
A script to stimulate questions and discussion about fairness and competition.
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By Steve Williams
An introduction to i-writing - writing for ideas.
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By Steve Williams
How freewriting and p4c can work together.
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By Steve Bramall
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.
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Topic:Starting Materials
Good Reasons
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By IAPC
Six exercises to introduce the notions of relevance, strength and sense with which to evaluate reasons.
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By Steve Williams
Lesson ideas for 'The Important Book'. Issues of personal identity and 'things that are important'.
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By Steve Williams
Steve Williams introduces some general strategies to guide writing for thinking and thinking for writing .
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By Steve Williams
An introduction to writing for ideas and writing for ideas plus expression.
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By Steve Williams
See our key document for ideas on how to use this fable.
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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 Jason Buckley
A story about the aftermath of all numbers going on strike.
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By IAPC
An exercise and discussion plan on these two essential and connected concepts.
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Topic:ExamplesIAPC Materials
Wondering
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By IAPC
Two activities to stimulate young children to reflect on their wondering.
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By IAPC
Two activities to explore children's attitudes to questions and to ask them to consider degrees of truth in answers to a question.
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