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The Ship of Theseus
From The If Machine by Peter Worley
When doing The Ship of Theseus chapter from The If Machine make the puzzle visual by assembling a model of the ship on the floor with some identical pencils and a piece of paper for the sail. As you explain the process of gradual change replace each pencil with another pencil creating a pile of the discarde...
Ages: Ages 7-11 (KS2)
Subjects: Metaphysics
Themes: Vagueness, Sorites paradox, Personal identity, Change
The Singing Tree
By Tim Beardmore-Gray
This enquiry was written for the educational charity GROW.
https://www.grow-up.co/
The story is based on the Swiss tale The Singing Fir Tree, as told by Sheryl Ann Karas. http://spiritoftrees.org/the-singing-fir-tree
The text in brackets can be omitted or included depending on how open you’d like the compreh...
Ages: Ages 14-16 (KS4), Ages 11-14 (KS3), Ages 7-11 (KS2)
Subjects: Ethics
Themes: Vagueness
