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The Story of Little Mole: Lesson Ideas | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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The Story of Little Mole: Lesson Ideas. By Steve Williams, Mon, 13/06/2011 - 15:43. Werner Holzwarth (Author), Wolf Erlbruch (Illustrator). Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books (15 Sep 1994). A LITTLE MOLE pops his head out of the ground only to find a poo dropping on his head. He says: "How mean! Who has done this on my head? Here are a few points of interest with activities you can use with children. OUTCOME, CAUSE AND INTENTION. Has he behaved in a worse way than any of the other animals? If children...
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Subscribe to p4c.com. SUBSCRIBE TO P4C.COM - the indispensable web subscription service for teachers who want pupils to think for themselves though philosophical dialogue with others. Resources, lesson plans, advice are just some of the benefits of subscribing. Read on for more. You will be able to copy and paste text from our resources and combine them with your own ideas to make materials, such as activity cards or digital slides. Sometimes we supply these 'extras' as well. We use a secure system from ...
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The Land of I Suppose | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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The Land of I Suppose. By IAPC, Wed, 25/01/2012 - 15:42. This story attached is taken from from 'Wondering at the World, Manual to Accompany Kio and Gus', p379. Notes by Steve Williams. How might pupils convince them without just repeating the opinion that waste is a bad thing? Would a consideration of consequences help in support of an argument against waste? Why might they not agree? The field is open for reflection on technical, political and moral issues. The story, and any follow-up stories produced...
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If then? | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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By The Editor, Fri, 12/10/2012 - 15:46. We are calling our project: If … then? A Compilation Journal for P4C. It contains a personal selection made by members of the P4C Co-operative. Of course, citations for the articles should use details of the original publication which are provided. The Community of Inquiry. We would like to thank the following journals for allowing us to use articles from their archives. Critical and Creative Thinking. Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children.
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The believing and doubting game | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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The believing and doubting game. By Steve Williams, Sun, 07/09/2008 - 14:41. A view is advanced by pupils or the teacher. In turn, the whole group works to support the view. Members try to come up with the best justifications for the view they can. The are 'believers'. Then all members of the group turn into 'doubters' and try to list the best reasons to doubt the view in question, including imagining better alternative views. Writers are encouraged to read their own writing as they would read texts writ...
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Sports Day in the Jungle | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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Sports Day in the Jungle. By Libby Ahluwalia, Tue, 25/10/2011 - 20:50. HERE IS A STORY I wrote in the form of a script. It could be read around the class or performed as a Readers Theatre piece. Simply read the story with pupils and ask them to come up with questions as you would with any story. There are versions attached in MS word and PDF format. He is is in plain text form. I’ve had a great idea! Do we have to? No it’s not. It’s not fair at all. If a race is going to be fair, we a...I’m huge, b...
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Good Reasons | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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By IAPC, Fri, 03/02/2012 - 19:45. Ordinarily we keep our beliefs in our minds without worrying as to whether or not they are supported by good reasons. Nor is there anything wrong with this. When we offer a reason, there should be an evident connection between the reason and the opinion at issue. The reason should have a bearing upon the matter: it should be relevant. And their combined weight should be greater than that of the opinion in question. A single reason may be weightier than the opinion it sup...
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Panel Discussions | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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By Steve Williams, Thu, 09/06/2011 - 12:10. PANEL DISCUSSIONS provide a very useful means to vary your work with a class, to limit the number of people who can speak at one time, or to work with very large groups. I have used panel discussions with groups are large as 60. In a panel discussion, the whole group is first split into smaller groups to discuss a question or statement for five or ten minutes. That can be provided by you or created and chosen by the group. VOTING FOR A QUESTION. At the end of t...
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Expectations of P4C skills in the Foundation stage | p4c.com - p4c resources and collaboration
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Expectations of P4C skills in the Foundation stage. By Sara Stanley, Fri, 10/06/2011 - 08:49. Here are some of the things you can expect from children in the Foundations Stage after you have started philosophising with them. These items may give you some ideas for planning. To give an answer to a choice from the question board. Progressing to giving a reason why they have made a choice. To be familiar with the basic building blocks such as 'follow the listening rules and understand what they mean'. Match...