Essential Understanding
Subject teachers will recognize the central role of knowledge questions in TOK and the role they play in subject areas.
Knowledge Questions
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Past Prescribed Titles
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Knowledge Question Hunt
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Answering Knowledge Questions
Musical Walk:
A knowledge question has been assigned to each one of you. Walk up in the room, mingle with others and ask ideas on how to answer your question?
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Answering Knowledge Questions: Model Activity
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Dealing with Knowledge Questions in the Subject Guide
- Don’t deal with KQ’s in an abstract way
- Link the KQ’s with appropriate examples from your subjects
- It is a good idea to start with an example/question from your subject to a TOK question rather than asking the TOK question directly
- Move between First Order and Second Order thinking
- Explore ways in which the KQ can help you initiate deeper thinking about your subject using Knowledge Framework.
- Ask students to give examples / counterexamples related to the KQ
- Use these KQ’s as big questions in your unit planner
- Explore interdisciplinary connection using KQ
Develop and Activity for knowledge question
- Select one of the questions you highlighted earlier
- Download the following template for the activity
- Develop an activity based on the question that you can conduct in your subject class
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Resources related to Knowledge Questions
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