Classic TOK lessons

Our classic TOK lessons comprise an extensive range of classroom-ready presentations that enable you to deliver the course directly via the core and optional themes, and the areas of knowledge.

They are perfect for first-time teachers of TOK who want a straightforward structure to their course, or teachers who want to augment our BQ framework with materials that invite students to delve directly into the different elements of the course.

Links to the classic lessons

Click on the images below to take you to the classic TOK lessons. Scroll down to access the briefing papers for each aspect of the course, which are all available now.

Download these free sample classic TOK resources!

Only faculty members of the site have access the classic TOK lessons. Below you’ll find a selection of free sample lesson resources, so please help yourself to see what you’ll gain when you join us!

Download a sample briefing paper (for history), giving students a quick overview of this aspect of the course.

Download a sample nature and scope lesson (for the arts), offering initial thoughts on the nature of knowledge.

Download a sample perspectives lesson (for language), looking at knowledge and perspectives.

Download a sample methods & tools lesson (for mathematics), looking at how knowledge is produced.

Download a sample ethics lesson (for the core theme), looking at how our knowledge informs our moral outlooks.

You’ve seen the samples; join us and access the rest, and a host of other brilliant resources for TOK.

Check out our TOK mini-lessons

Faculty members of the site have access to 15 new mini-lessons every month. Find out more, and download them, here.

The mini-lessons can be used by TOK or non-TOK teachers equally effectively. Each one will help students to develop their real-world critical thinking, via the very latest news stories.

Develop your students’ authentic critical thinking

Our in-school & online workshops are engaging, inspiring, and jargon-free, and leave TOK and non-TOK teachers with practical takeaways that they can implement easily in their classrooms.

We can help you with a wide range of issues and topics related to the TOK course, and help you turn your students into authentic critical thinkers who make sense of the world in a nuanced and objective way. Find out more and book a session here.