Andrew Brown evoking the TOK Exhibition—standing with Gao Qipei’s Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller at BAMPFA, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
350 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE class activities
SHARED in a spirit of collegiality
Welcome to TOKresource.org
Beginning and experienced IB Theory of Knowledge teachers are invited to appropriate, borrow directly, or adapt freely any of this tried and trusted TOK content. The various class activities evolve. They are tweaked each time they are tested in the classroom. Activities that fall flat or prove otherwise unsuccessful with my own students are dropped from the site.
TOKresource.org is a non-commercial resource for TOK teachers around the world. There are no subscriptions, ads, or clickbait. Nor does the site provide quick-fix assessment help for students. Instead, the focus is on the essential recurring challenge for every TOK teacher—when it’s time for class, what are my students actually going to do?*
Andrew Brown
Critical limitations of the site
This website does one thing well. It shares lesson plans and ideas from the perspective of an experienced, individual classroom teacher. TOKResource.org aligns with copyrighted IBO materials—but stops short of addressing specific Essay titles. Strategies proposed for both the Exhibition and the TOK Essay serve any prompt.
The official IB Diploma Programme Resource Centre is the one and only foundational reference point for all TOK teachers. The Theory of Knowledge Guide (first assessment 2022) together with teacher support and assessment materials are downloadable after login. IB approved workshops (offered at three levels according to experience) should be the very next priority for both novice and veteran TOK teachers.
Young Bonobo—a very smart ape!
Photo credit: Anup Shah via Getty Images.
“*Yes, that’s all good... but what are your students actually going to do? ”
Updated — April 11, 2024
Human infant spoon fed by a AI drone in Plato’s Cave (2024)—Oil painting by the author.