Activities
Asking for and giving Reasons
These activities are designed to explore the process of giving reasons to justify claims. Most of the time we justify claims by making other claims - what we call 'giving reasons'. What makes a reason...
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Knowledge Framework Free
The Knowledge Framework (KF) is designed to help you organise your thinking in ToK. It is a way of linking and comparing different parts of the ToK course, themes and areas of knowledge. It is also a...
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The methods of Sociology and Anthropology
This page examines the methods and tools employed by anthropologists and sociologists. It seems that human society is not the kind of thing we can do experiments on. What methods can be used instead?...
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What makes a good example?
There is a lot of fuss about examples on this site. The reason is that the quality of examples in an essay is usually a good predictor of its overall grade. It is unlikely that the essay will get a good...
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Natural Sciences
The Natural Sciences aim to explain the natural world through observation, experimentation, and logical reasoning. This area of knowledge includes disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, and...
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Introduction: ToK in the Science class
This is a fun little play that illustrates the kind of question we shall be dealing with in this module. I have organised it using the Knowledge Framework and put in hyperlinks to the relevant sections...
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TOK Essay
This collection of pages tells you everything you need to know about the ToK essay. We start with a quick description of the essay followed by a page telling you how to ace it! Then we go into more detail...
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Essay building blocks
The ToK essay is built from blocks in much the same way a building is made from differently-shaped slabs of stone. Each block has a particular job to do. It is a good idea to keep the different blocks...
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The structure of the ToK essay
Structure is important in the ToK essay. A principle of good writing is that you do not require your reader to keep too many things in mind at the same time. This means making the essay modular. It should...
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Unpacking the title using examples
We have seen that thinking with examples can help in the construction of arguments in the ToK essay (see Thinking with examples...). They can also be used to arrive at definitions of the key terms in...