Plato Was Wrong!

David Shapiro

doi:10.5771/9781610486200

Summary

This book is a compendium of lesson plans for classroom exercises designed to foster philosophical inquiry with young people. It introduces the reader to a wide range of activities for exploring philosophical questions and problems with children from pre-school age through high-school. There are lessons for a full-range of topics in philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and each is intended to help foster a supportive and caring classroom community of inquiry. All of the activities have been used on numerous occasions and include reflections on what teachers who employ the lesson might expect when doing so. Using this book, teachers, parents, and others can successfully being fostering philosophical inquiry with young people of all ages.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-618-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-620-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 175
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Why Use Philosophical Exercises? No access
2. How Are the Philosophical Exercises Organized? No access
3. How Are the Philosophical Exercises Used? No access
4. Tips for Successful Pre-College Philosophy Sessions No access
5. Lesson Plans No access
1. Lesson Plan: Are You a Philosopher? No access
2. Lesson Plan: “One Rule” Game No access
3. Lesson Plan: The Three Questions No access
4. Lesson Plan: Energizer Activity—Word Association No access
5. Lesson Plan: Blind Painter No access
6. Lesson Plan: Keep the Question Going No access
7. Lesson Plan: Sense and Nonsense No access
8. Notes No access
1. Lesson Plan: Good News, Bad News No access
2. Lesson Plan: A Little Logic No access
3. Lesson Plan: How Many of These Do You Know To Be True? No access
4. Note No access
1. Lesson Plan: “What’s Your Reason?” Game No access
2. Lesson Plan: Two Trues, One False No access
3. Lesson Plan: The “Egg Drop” Game No access
4. Lesson Plan: Assassin Game No access
5. Lesson Plan: “Hypothesis Generation” Exercise No access
6. Lesson Plan: Which Story Is True? No access
7. Lesson Plan: “What Do I Know (About This Strawberry)?” Exercise No access
8. Lesson Plan: “Confirmation Bias” Exercise No access
9. Notes No access
1. Lesson Plan: Reality Scavenger Hunt No access
2. Lesson Plan: “What Makes the Team the Team?” Exercise No access
3. Lesson Plan: What Makes Me Me? No access
4. Lesson Plan: Could Anything Else Have Happened? No access
5. Lesson Plan: Got a Minute? No access
1. Lesson Plan: Aesthetics Scavenger Hunt No access
2. Lesson Plan: “Smoke” No access
3. Lesson Plan: Art Market No access
1. Lesson Plan: “Ring of Gyges” Diary No access
2. Lesson Plan: “Lifeboat” Exercise No access
3. Lesson Plan: “What Do Rights Look Like?” Exercise No access
4. Lesson Plan: The “Red/Green” Game No access
5. Lesson Plan: “Hand Dealt” No access
6. Lesson Plan: Fair or Equal? No access
7. Lesson Plan: Ants and Chocolate No access
8. Lesson Plan: Fish and Candy No access
9. Notes No access
1. Lesson Plan: What’s Worth Doing? No access
2. Lesson Plan: “What Is the Meaning of Life?” Game No access
3. Lesson Plan: “Why?” No access
1. Reading: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, “A Mad Tea-Party” No access
2. Reading: Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit No access
3. Reading: Bernard Wiseman, Morris the Moose No access
4. Reading: Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, “The Tesseract” No access
5. Reading: Amy Goldman Koss, The Ashwater Experiment No access
6. Reading: J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them No access
7. Reading: Frank L. Baum, The Tin Woodman of Oz No access
8. Reading: Frank Tashlin, The Bear That Wasn’t No access
9. Reading: William Steig, Yellow and Pink No access
10. Reading: C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, chapter 5 No access
11. Reading: Claudia Mills, Dinah Forever, chapter 3 No access
Bibliography No access Pages 175 - 175