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.
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 […]
What is Bias?
Explore the concept of bias and how it shapes our understanding of the world!
Halloween Costumes!
What was your favorite Halloween costume? Let’s analyze the character you chose to be during Halloween and explore why that was your favorite Halloween costume?
Lesson on Thanksgiving
This lesson will engage k-2 students in a discussion about what Thanksgiving is and what Thanksgiving means.
Aliens?!?!
Let’s talk about Aliens (and explore some ethical and epistemological questions)! Are they real? What is an Alien? Should we even go looking for them? Let’s think about it!
Introduction to Skepticism
In assessing the truth we often have to think about the information given to us. Should information be taken at face value, or should it be investigated? Through skepticism we can question the validity of information in hopes to find absolute truths.
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Think critically about reality in this lesson that takes an epistemological approach to examine the question: is your life a simulation?
Grades
What do grades measure? Are they an accurate reflection of our knowledge? Should we have grades at all?
Sports and Permanence
What does it mean to root for a team when its players change constantly? Should we look at teams differently?
Tiktok
Let’s explore why Tiktok has become so popular. Why do we connect so much with videos posted by people who we don’t know?
Altruism
When we do good things for other people, are we always being as selfless as we think? Is true altruism even possible? This lesson contains examples offering competing views of what it means to be a good person.
Mental Movements with Music Ep. 1
The goal of this podcast is to vocalize what goes on in people’s minds when they listen to music. Throughout this series, I hope to have different people experience different kinds of music, whilst sharing their initial thoughts and reactions. We take the discussion deeper after they hear the song. I encourage listeners to express their thoughts as comments!
