Enquiries
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Pen Person
Resources
4 pens (pen person’s arms)
A small sandwich box (pen person’s body)
A ball (pen person’s head)
Key controversies
What makes you a person? Can you be a person without certain things (limbs, for example)
Starter
sit children in a circle
One by one draw the objects out of a bag and ask a c...
Ages: Ages 5-7 (KS1), Ages 3-5 (EYFS)
Subjects: Metaphysics
Themes: Identity, Existence, Classification , Being/non-being
Recipe for 1 Human: Ingredients
By Tim Beardmore-Gray
Background to session
This enquiry was written for a Yr5 class that had lead a previous enquiry into exploring the EQ: “What features would a robot have to have in order to be a real human?” They had expressed a desire to explore this further the following week. Engagement was a given and we could dive qui...
Ages: Ages 11-14 (KS3), Ages 7-11 (KS2)
Subjects: Metaphysics, Humanities, Ethics, Epistemology
Themes: Knowledge, Existence, Classification , Being/non-being
Unicorn Horns - thinking about things that don’t exist
Unicorn Horns - thinking about things that don’t exist
This is a development of ‘Nobody’s home’ from The If Odyssey and is designed to get the class thinking about non-existent entities. These include fictional characters of all kinds, but they also include some more controversial examples such as Santa Claus and the T...
Ages: Ages 14-16 (KS4), Ages 11-14 (KS3), Ages 7-11 (KS2)
Subjects: Metaphysics
Themes: True, Sense, Reference, Real, Mythology, Meaning, Existence, Being/non-being
