Diploma Programme

IB DP TOK | History Language and Narrative Lesson Walkthrough

Students analyse historical metaphors and rewrite an account of the past to explore how language and narrative shape historical knowledge.

IB DP TOK | How Certain Are You Lesson Walkthrough

Students take part in a certainty auction, apply levels of Cartesian doubt and use a doubt-machine activity to examine how knowledge claims can be challenged.

IB DP TOK | How Historians Know What They Know Lesson Walkthrough

Students apply the CARGO source-evaluation framework and compare historical interpretations to examine how historians justify claims about the past.

IB DP TOK | Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered Lesson Walkthrough

Students debate four philosophical positions, sort mathematical objects and consider connections between abstract mathematics and physical reality.

IB DP TOK | Mathematics Beauty and Intuition Lesson Walkthrough

Students rate mathematical beauty, compare approaches to proof and take part in an intuition tribunal to examine the roles of elegance, imagination and intuition.

IB DP TOK | Methods in the Human Sciences Lesson Walkthrough

Students compare quantitative and qualitative approaches, design a study and examine replication and the challenges of researching human behaviour.

IB DP TOK | Moral Frameworks Lesson Walkthrough

Students apply consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics to moral dilemmas and defend a framework in a structured classroom debate.

IB DP TOK | Perspective Bias and Revisionism in History Lesson Walkthrough

Students compare textbook accounts, examine the influences on a historian’s perspective and discuss how to distinguish revision from distortion.

IB DP TOK | How Science Produces Knowledge Lesson Walkthrough

Students sort scientific and non-scientific claims, design falsifiable hypotheses and consider how evidence, creativity and changing explanations shape science.

IB DP TOK | Science Ethics and Values Lesson Walkthrough

Students map the role of values in science, analyse research case studies and discuss funding choices and the communication of scientific knowledge.