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This session starts with giving examples of things you have done in a video game that you would never do in real life, and offers a further stimulus entitled 'Cruel Playground, Cruel World.'
A facilitation technique for interrogating familiar ideas.
Like any lesson, a P4C session can drift and lose focus. It can be down to a range of factors, most beyond our control: tiredness, the weather, post-lunch sugar-rushes, post-lunch sugar-crashes... There’s also none of those traditional trappings that make up half the battle when it becomes to behaviour: lesson plans, a seating plans, tables, books and those golden periods of silence when everyone is writing date and title. It’s easier for pupils to slip off into off-topic chat, and even horseplay, when learning time is a little more loose, informal and organic. So what can we do to sharpen up our sessions, and keep pupils focussed?
Lay down the challenge to your pupils to define a concept they hold dear, or risking losing it!
A playful enquiry for young children about what to do if the animals of the Zodiac resigned from New Year duties!
An energetic enquiry using a 'Question Zoo' to present different ways pupils can compare our system of justice to theirs.
Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? The traditional 'Problem of Evil' broken down into accessible language for pupils to discuss.
A 95 year old guard from Auschwitz was put on trial in 2016 and this asks pupils how responsible he was, and also raises questions of forgiveness (Note: This resource is more suited to the upper end of the 7-11 age range.)
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