Welcome to K-12 Philosophy!
Check out lesson plans posted by Hamilton College mentors.
But Why?
This lesson revolves around the idea of practicing self-control, a key concept in stoicism. It will also provide examples of how self-control can be good through the use of games and why self-control can be beneficial.
Thinking About Thinking
Have you ever thought about how you think? How about what thinking is? Can you choose what thoughts you have? Can you ever stop thinking? Go on an adventure with Olive the Owl to explore these questions and more!
Life Playlist
Music drifts through the air into our heads throughout our lives. But, when do we stop to just listen? You and I will be experiencing different ways of listening to music with these audio instructions. This week, the activity is to listen to the playlist of your life that you create.
Gifts
This lesson focuses on nontraditional gifts, and asks students to critically analyze the sort of etiquette that surrounds gift giving.
What is Funny?
What shapes your sense of humor? Is anything universally funny? This lesson explores the constructions of comedy.
Dancing!!
Get ready to dance in today’s lesson! We are going to think about dancing and how different songs change how we move our body!
How Do I Feel? Emotions and Actions
This lesson allows kids and us to explore how we use our emotions and how our emotions and colors are associated together. Sometimes we think blue means sad and yellow means happy, but I like blue and it makes me happy so this lesson is to get us thinking about what colors we associate with our emotions and why we […]
Weather and Change
This lesson allows us to look at weather and how it changes as well as how change can make us feel. This lesson also has videos and activities that allows the students to interact with us and each other as well as have time to think and focus about their own thoughts. Looking at weather and change and why we […]
Observation and Perception
Let’s explore our observation and perception of the world and how we know things exist as we see them!
Are We Losing it? w/ Lelan Ep 6: Vulnerability and Courage
In the series finale, Lelan ties all of his podcasts together with a last lesson on vulnerability and courage. After exploring what vulnerability means, and examples of courage we come to the conclusion, is there Courage without Vulnerability? If so and we all want to seem courageous why do we see vulnerability as a weakness? Vulnerability is one of the […]
Me and You
This lesson focuses on the stoic belief surrounding the relationship between oneself and others. By following the stoic philosopher Hierocles, students will be able to explore their connection between themselves and other individuals, and eventually the human community.
Eight New Dimension
Music drifts through the air into our heads throughout our lives. But, when do we stop to just listen? You and I will be experiencing different ways of listening to music with these audio instructions. This week, the activity is to listen to 8D music.
Does Kindness Exist?
In society, there are unspoken rules that we grow up with. People often say, “Sharing is caring” or they donate to charity, and people volunteer. Do people do it because of the goodness of their hearts or because of what society has formed as things that a person should do in order to be perceived in a certain way.
What is Bias?
Explore the concept of bias and how it shapes our understanding of the world!
Philosophy of Colors & Emotion
A short activity that goes over if/how colors correlate with emotions. We will examine how different colors represent different feelings and emotions.
