40 lessons to get children thinking: Philosophical thought adventures across the curriculum Paperback – 22 Oct. 2015

This book proves to be an excellent tool for teachers who want to create spaces for questioning.For those working in philosophy with children and young people, it is a platform full of good ideas that we can adjust to our facilitator style.

Very disappointed with this book. Pages are of poor quality and thin. The instructions and lesson plans are vague and poor. The title should be 40 ideas on philosophy using Poems as they are used in most of the lessons. I think the source materialbfor each lesson should have been provided..Also the use of multiple poems has left the books idea boring for any KS2 children.

Ideal school resource.

40 lessons to get children thinking is an excellent resource to pupils, educators, and philosophy enthusiasts across the globe. The lessons are superbly researched, excellently written and extremely interactive - a must for all schools.Although at times the thought adventures may seem to clutter the page, they also breathe life, vitality and pure joy into what is considered, by many primary schools, to be a dull and uninteresting subject. Pete Worley's wonderful enthusiasm for the topic is obvious throughout the book and serves to captivate all age ranges. The book contains thought adventures whereby the children use thought experiments, poems and stories to critically reason in a caring, collaborative and creative way. With each lesson you are given step by step guidance on how to plan, implement, evaluate and review a philosophical enquiry inclusive of resources needed. The lessons have all been tried and tested through the use of action based research by the Philosophy Foundation making this book a must for a teacher's desk.

I purchased this book to use in homeschooling my elementary-aged son. As a long-time homeschooler, I have adapted numerous curriculum resources that were intended to be used in a classroom setting for use at home. However, the lessons in this book rely heavily on class discussion and did not adapt well for use with an individual child. After trying a handful of lessons, I gave up and shelved this book. (I switched to the book Philosophy for Kids by David A. White, which worked much better in a homeschool setting.)A couple years later, I pulled this book out to teach a philosophy for children class with a homeschool co-op. With an actual group of children to get discussion going, this book was a very useful resource. However, the organization of the book is a bit challenging if you are using it for the first time. When preparing a lesson, you often have to jump around and read parts of other lessons or other sections of the book that explain different presentation techniques. It's all well-connected, but it takes time to understand it. For a teacher in a classroom setting who has a different group of children every year and could thus repeat the same lessons each year, this book would be an excellent choice.