Epistemology Lesson Plans

Learners undertake a series of experiments related to the water cycle. All experiments use John Dewey's experiential philosophy as their bases. Each lesson is clearly based on philosophy and attempts to be relevant.

Young scholars analyzes different worldviews as divergent as Christianity and B.F. Skinner's behaviorism, Platonism and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism, and shows that these different world views can be compared in terms of four topics: They each present an idea of the nature, and sometimes origin, of the world and a theory of the nature of the human being

Twelfth graders investigate how to analyze, question and debate the validity of the information given to them from teachers, text books, the media and their peers. The purpose of this lesson is to foster a true understanding about the origins of Thanksgiving through lecture, research, and classroom discussion.

Young scholars participate in reading various poems in order to complete different activities. In groups, they compare and contrast the writing style and subject matter of two different author's poems. They practice writing poems on different topics to introduce them to all types.