Our Primary Years ACT mini-lessons will enable any teacher to run thought-provoking learning activities, link their subject to contemporary issues and events, and encourage students to challenge their assumptions about the world.
We’ll be adding the mini-lessons in late 2024. In the meantime, you can check out the middle years mini-lessons, which could be adapted for use for primary students.
The primary years mini-lessons are coming…
We’ll be adding the primary years mini-lessons to our ACT continuum of learning at the end of 2024. In the meantime, you can download a sample version of the newsletter here. If you are looking for resources to develop authentic critical thinking in your primary years students, you may be able to adapt our middle years resources found here.
The ACT/TOK teaching and learning pathway
Placing ACT at the heart of what we do creates a learning pathway represented by the diagram below. We begin with resources for primary learners (now being introduced), move onto the middle years resources which we update each month, and culminate in either our resources for the TOK course, or if your students are following a different educational programme (such as A-Levels or the AP), senior ACT resources.
All our resources are incredibly flexible, and can be plugged into any educational programme. Deliver our full-length ACT courses in timetabled lessons, run our mini-lessons in PSE classes, use our extension resources such as Investigating Issues to fill your EPQ or HPQ slots, or offer your students our ‘Knowledge Journeys’ in optional extension classes outside of the usual timetabled day – it’s entirely up to you.
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Members have access to a huge range of ACT & TOK resources, including classroom-ready courses, TOK and ACT newsletters, TOK and ACT mini-lessons, Investigating Issues, TOK Padlets, 12 Key Concepts, and many more engaging, innovative resources!
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