The ultimate whole-school P4C tool! This product comprises twenty multi-use philosophical debate and discussion sessions! These are the themes/topics explored by the different sessions:
 
Animal Rights & Caring for Animals
Art & The Nature of Beauty
Big Issues in Politics
British Values / American Values (Two Distinct Resources)
Caring For The Environment
Celebrating Other Cultures & Religions
Christian Philosophy & Ethics
Citizenship
Computers, Robots & Artificial Intelligence
Epistemology
Ethics & Morality
Friendship, Exclusion & Bullying
Literacy, Reading & The Value of Literature
Metaphysics & The Nature of Reality
Moral & Spiritual Development
Space, Aliens & The Universe
The Biggest Questions in Philosophy
The Philosophy of History
The Philosophy of Maths
"Who Am I?" & The Philosophy of Identity
 
We hope this collection covers all of the bases in relation to the main fields and central debates of philosophy. Metacognition and philosophy go hand-in-hand because metacognition involves thinking deeply about the nature of thought, learning, knowledge & the mind. For this reason we have put together a comprehensive whole-school philosophy resource to make students think deeply about life, learning & metacognition!
 
Each session features a variety of P4C activities, debates & discussion prompts. The 'Philosophy Boxes Method' presents students with a set of ‘mystery boxes’, when a student selects one of the boxes they are presented with a random P4C activity. Each session has an integrated AfL system so that teachers can check learning at any point in the lesson!
 
The nature of the design makes these sessions highly flexible: each PowerPoint file can be used for short sessions (5-10 minutes) or much longer sessions (up to 2 hours!) - it allows for classroom practitioners to be flexible and adaptable. It can, therefore, be used in lessons or as a tutor-time activity. Each sessions can be used multiple times as they have such a large range of activities and prompts.
 
Like all our resource, this download includes a whole-school license meaning that you can share this resource with the other teachers in your school: as you can see from the topics above, it's a resource that has relevance to many different school subjects.
 
This is an ideal resource to bring P4C (Philosophy for Children) into your school: the range of topics means there's 'something for every one' and that the cross-curricular connections are very broad.
 
We hold that engaging students in philosophical discussion, debates and reflection is one of the best ways to enhance their critical-thinking skills and Higher-Order Thinking Skills: the metacogntive benefits of philosophy in schools should not be underestimated!
 
Download this collection of twenty P4C sessions today!

[Note: Our updated philosophy resources are from our partners at funphilosophylessons.com and can be found in the Members Area - register your plan here to download all of them!]