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A Guardian story, looking at the return to the Prado of the painting, The Year of Famine, which went from being the museum's most popular piece to an artistic joke.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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A Hannah Fry story, in which she ‘proves’ that a bankrupt British department store was built by ancient aliens, giving us an interesting insight into our brains.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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A Graffiti Street story, looking at the mysterious appearance of a statue on a famous street in London, which may or may not be a Banksy.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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LOOK WHERE YOU’RE GOING | TOK mini-lesson

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A Conversation story, arguing that corporate algorithms are becoming our new moral authorities, and decide whether we are behaving appropriately or not.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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RANKINGS AND DASHBOARDS | TOK mini-lesson

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An FT story*, exploring the essential role of trials in helping to produce reliable knowledge about science and other areas.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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TOUGHENED PINT GLASSES | TOK mini-lesson

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A Conversation story, looking at how we tend to remember opinions more than facts - and how that can be leveraged to help stop misinformation.

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A TED story, in which etymologist Adam Aleksic argues platforms such as ChatGPT and Spotify are changing the way we interact with reality.

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A Black History Month story, looking at the life of Claudette Colvin, who was the first black person to refuse to give up her seat on a bus, but who was never recognized like Rosa Parks.

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CONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE | TOK mini-lesson

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rA Conversation story, analyzing the “marketing genius” of Spotify Unwrapped, the yearly round-up of users’ music habits.

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CONNECTION & INDIVIDUALITY | TOK mini-lesson

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A Conversation story, posing the ethical question, why is it OK to receive a transplanted organ from a pig, but not OK to grow human organs in a pig.

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A TED story, in which Harini Bhat discusses the “thrill” of not knowing, and being able to admit that that is the case.

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A Conversation story, which looks at the life of Jane Goodall, and how her disruptive approach led to the production of important new knowledge.

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A Conversation story looking at the ethics of anatomical drawings, that feature in medical textbooks, and which were often created via troubling ethical scenarios.

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DID THEY EVER CONSENT? | TOK mini-lesson

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A Salon story, arguing that doubt is an ‘Act of resistance’ in an age when people have weaponized certainty in politics and other aspects of life.

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A BBC Future story, looking at how suggestions that eating insects might help us combat climate change have fuelled a conspiracy theory.

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I WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS! | TOK mini-lesson

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An AP story, reporting on the campaign by African nations to replace the Mercator map as the standard representation of the world.

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A Conversation story, reporting on how AI has now passed the Turing test - and what this means for our relationship with art.

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A Big Think story, featuring Alex Edmans, who says that the prevalence of misinformation is due to us suffering from confirmation bias.

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A mini-lesson based on a Guardian investigation, which has discovered that over 50% of mental health videos on TikTok contain misleading or inaccurate information.

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A mini-lesson based on a very short Science News review of a book exploring the way ‘silly science’ can lead to profound insights into the way the natural world works, and be built on in the future.

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INSIGHTFUL SILLY SCIENCE | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a 5-minute BBC video, reporting on the erection of a statue to former dictator, Joseph Stalin, in a Moscow metro station, and his rehabilitation in Russian - or Soviet - history.

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THE PUSH FOR PATRIOTISM | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, drawing on Carl Sagan’s ‘ECREE’ maxim to explore how much evidence would be required to convincingly claim that extraterrestrial life exists.

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EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS | ACT mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Big Think interview with Claire Dederer, which discusses the age-old question of art vs. artist, and why the goalposts have moved in the online age.

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AN AESTHETICO- ETHICAL DANCE | ACT mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Big Think interview with Robert MacFarlane, in which he discusses how language and perception shape our relationship with the natural world.

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THE LANGUAGE  OF CONNECTION | ACT mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Big Think video with David Eagleman, in which he argues that the first step in understanding the world is understanding the way your brain works.

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INGROUPS AND OUTGROUPS | ACT mini-lessons (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a long Guardian photo-essay, which discusses 28 images from the last 150 years that have fooled people “for political power, image control - or just for fun”.

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THE CAMERA NEVER LIES | ACT mini-lessons (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, exploring how people project their political views onto fictional heroes and villains, according to which side of the spectrum they belong to.

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GOODIES & BADDIES | ACT mini-lessons (senior)

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The mini-lessons help students apply critical thinking concepts to real-world situations, challenge them to identify their biases and assumptions about knowledge, and provide powerful examples for extended projects, and university preparation.

They're designed to be shared with the rest of your teaching faculty to encourage authentic critical thinking throughout your school.

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A mini-lesson based on a Times of Israel article, discussing how survivors of Auschwitz are disappearing, and why this means new ways of remembering the events of the Holocaust are required.

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, which explores the challenge of ensuring that scientific knowledge is both open and protected from those who may seek to appropriate it.

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THE FREE FLOW OF IDEAS | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on an Independent article, looking at the life of painter Jack Vettriano, who was loved by ordinary people, but despised by the critics.

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, looking at the way science fiction and technological innovation exist within the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’.

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THE SCI-FI FEEDBACK LOOP | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Salon interview with Jamil Zaki, who has written a book advocating an approach to knowing about the world removed from cynicism.

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BECOMING A HOPEFUL SCEPTIC | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on an FT article, analysing why people get involved in social disorder, focusing on the riots currently going on in Britain.

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RIFFRAFF VS. RATIONAL ACTS | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Guardian article, looking at different mathematical models to measure success at the Paris Olympic Games.

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A MEANINGFUL MEDAL COUNT | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, offering seven steps for working out whether a knowledge claim is actually advocating a conspiracy theory. Designed for anyone looking at the way conspiracy theories take hold, their impact on our understanding the world, and and how to counter them.

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RECOGNIZING THE RED FLAGS | ACT mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, looking at the ‘genius’ of Beyonce’s new album, Cowboy Carter, which it says is based on the way it defies and challenges our perception of musical  genres. Designed for teachers of music, arts subjects, and anyone interested in how art evolves over time.

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GENRE- SUBVERTING ART | ACT mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Big Think article, ascertaining whether certain health issues are caused by, or correlated with, the consumption of sweeteners. Designed for teachers of biology, chemistry, health science, and anyone interested in the way public health advice is generated and communicated.

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LAZY NUTRITION SCIENCE? | ACT mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on an Aeon article, exploring how the way we use language to describe the nature and function of cells misleads us. Designed for teachers of biology, other sciences, and anyone exploring how language shapes (and can undermine) our understanding of the natural world.

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LANDMINE-LOADED SCIENCE | ACT mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Guardian article, looking at the motives behind a statue of a British naval officer freeing an enslaved African, and what it tells us about how we remember the past. Designed for teachers of history, politics, and anyone interested in how we tell stories of our past, and their agendas

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A mini-lesson based on a FT article, arguing that banning TikTok will not manage to fix social media’s ‘collective trap’. Designed for teachers of Digital society, psychology, business, law, and anyone interested in our use of social media - and whether it should be restricted