5th Grade exploration of "Who am I?" (Personal Identity)
“I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!”
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Handout for 5th grade students exploring personal identity:
“I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!”
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Handout for 5th grade students exploring personal identity:
DISCUSSION PLAN: Personal Identity-What Makes You You?
Page 35 from Lipman/Sharp/ Oscanyan: Philosophical Inquiry: An Instructional Manual to Accompany Harry Stottlemeier’s Discovery (from the Philosophy for Children Curriculum)
Page 35 from Lipman/Sharp/ Oscanyan: Philosophical Inquiry: An Instructional Manual to Accompany Harry Stottlemeier’s Discovery (from the Philosophy for Children Curriculum)
- Is it your name?
- Is it your face?
- Is it your clothes?
- Is it your mind?
- Is it your thoughts?
- If for some reason you couldn't use your mind, would you still be you?
- Are you the same person you were yesterday?
- Are you the same person you were 10 years ago?
- Are you the same person you were when you were born?
- When you're very old, will you be the same person you are now?
- If you think your best friend could change minds, so you would think all of his thoughts and he think all of yours, would you still be you?
- If, when you were very small, you can take into another country so that you grew up speaking completely different language, would you still be you?
4th Grade themes 'Point of View' / 'Perception / 'Things and what they are to us' from the The Chair (Peter Worley, the if machine: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom. page 49-55)
Student Mind Map: