SET PIECE ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES

MATHEMATICS
Pure mathematics: invented or discovered?
House of cards investigation
The Monty Hall problem
The special case of mathematical induction with a guest mathematician
Mathematics as a human enterprise reader
The great mathematical debate
 

THE NATURAL SCIENCES
41 orders of magnitude at Homo discens
E. O. Wilson’s sciences chapter in Consilience
Nature: an encounter with a real science journal
Is there a scientific method?
Popper and falsifiability
Consilience and emergence at Homo discens

THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Random numbers and deconstructing statistical evidence
Isaiah Berlin’s pluralism
Partnership week with NewsTrust: What is good journalism?

HISTORY
Professor Marwick of the Open University: The Fundamentals of History
Draw history
What is time? ...TOK Knowledge Issue or metaphysical speculation?
Memory at Homo discens    

ETHICS
What are ethics and morality all about?
Exorcising cultural relativism
Global ethics resources
Gorilla language and personhood 
Moral Sense Test lab
The limits of utilitarianism
Kant’s Categorical Imperative
Rawls’ “Veil of Ignorance”
The universality of the Golden Rule
“The Seven Deadly Sins”
What is a war crime?—Nuremberg and the European Criminal Court
Guest scientist works with human volunteers
Reckless Black Night and brave Sir Robin—Aristotle’s Golden Mean
Smullyan's Is God a Taoist?
Vera Drake: saint or serial killer?
“Between beasts and angels”―the banal and the sublime

THE ARTS
Picasso’s lie
Highly provocative artworks collection
Mathematics, physics and music
BBC video on You Tube: Live orchestral performance of John Cage's 4’ 33’’
Attempting to Draw a Naked Human Being
“That willing suspension of disbelief”

EXTRAS
Student feedback evaluation Instrument
Some TOK relevant movie recommendations

THE ESSAY
MLA citation conventions
Official IBO preamble for writing a TOK Essay
Some clichés and blunders to avoid when tackling a TOK essay

THE ORAL PRESENTATION
Official IBO guidelines for TOK Oral Presentations