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.
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.
Students examine the purpose of the TOK exhibition, annotate and compare commentaries, and begin connecting specific objects to a prompt.
Students analyse historical metaphors and rewrite an account of the past to explore how language and narrative shape historical knowledge.
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.
Students apply the CARGO source-evaluation framework and compare historical interpretations to examine how historians justify claims about the past.
Students debate four philosophical positions, sort mathematical objects and consider connections between abstract mathematics and physical reality.
Students rate mathematical beauty, compare approaches to proof and take part in an intuition tribunal to examine the roles of elegance, imagination and intuition.
Students compare quantitative and qualitative approaches, design a study and examine replication and the challenges of researching human behaviour.
Students apply consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics to moral dilemmas and defend a framework in a structured classroom debate.