Lessons

IB DP TOK | Power Gatekeeping and Knowledge Lesson Walkthrough

Students compare credibility judgements across sources and create power maps to examine who validates knowledge and who gains access to it.

IB DP TOK | Descartes vs. Locke Lesson Walkthrough

Students compare rationalism and empiricism through a fictional murder investigation, Molyneux’s problem and questions about knowledge through reason and experience.

IB DP TOK | Sense Perception and Reality Lesson Walkthrough

Students record perception experiments, compare cultural influences and use perception audits to explore how experience contributes to our understanding of reality.

IB DP TOK | Essay Structure and Argument Lesson Walkthrough

Students diagnose paragraphs, develop knowledge claims and counterclaims, plan an essay outline and use peer critique to strengthen an argument.

IB DP TOK | The Structure of Reason, the Problem of Induction, and the Limits of Logic Lesson Walkthrough

Students map arguments, distinguish validity from soundness and examine induction and fallacies through examples and media extracts.

IB DP TOK | Essay and Examples Workshop Lesson Walkthrough

Students build and share a bank of specific real-world examples, connect examples to knowledge claims and practise integrating them into essay paragraphs. Uses May 2026 prescribed titles for past-session practice.

IB DP TOK | Ethics and Human Sciences Lesson Walkthrough

Students examine research case studies, apply three ethical principles and take part in a knowledge tribunal to explore the costs of producing knowledge about people.

IB DP TOK | Exhibition Introduction Lesson Walkthrough

Students examine the purpose of the TOK exhibition, annotate and compare commentaries, and begin connecting specific objects to a prompt.

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.