Activities
Sticks and stones
There is an old school playground adage that says 'sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me' - in other words: we can harm someone physically but not through the use of language....
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Ethics in history
As with other areas of knowledge, history also crosses paths with ethics. Historians' main duty is to investigate and explain the past. This places ethical obligations on them as knowers to get it right...
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Logical Fallacies
The activities on this page are designed to explore the notions of valid argument. If we back up knowledge claims using argument then it is important to distinguish between arguments that work and those...
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Christmas Special!
It is the Christmas season again! In some parts of the world this means festivities. Special food is prepared, special songs are sung, Christmas trees are going up and decorated, gifts are exchanged,...
Unit planners
Unit planner - History
The following unit planner is based on the lesson plans from History. This is a model unit planner to help you adapt your own unit plans in order to meet IB requirements for the DP. The information will...
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3D map of a faraway planet’s atmosphere Free
How do we use material tools in the production of knowledge in the sciences? Do they allow for the direct observation? What happens if the conclusions reached are only inferences? Is it still knowledge?...
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What on earth is ethical mathematics?
What aspects of mathematics raise ethical questions? At first sight, the answer to this question seems to lie in the uses to which maths is put. Given that the natural sciences involve maths, these AoKs...
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How do mathematicians do their thing?
The methods of mathematics are rather special since they deliver a special outcome, namely the only kind of knowledge that can be said to be certain. Proof is a method that delivers certainty. It gives...
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Are there perspectives in mathematics?
It is tempting to think that mathematics is not the kind of subject in which you can have perspectives - either a conjecture is true or not - it doesn't depend on a particular point of view. It turns...
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Itiner-e: How Tech Reimagines an Ancient Road Network Free
Technology is a valuable tool in production of knowledge in many areas. In history, it allows us to reconstruct the unknown past, from buildings to documents. Thanks to advanced models of analysis it...