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=Group Bonding!!= Click here - check your groups and start thinking!

= Philosophy Trail - Thinking about Thinking = Preparation for the Philosophy Trail - Our thinking tasks and starters:
 * New animal + speech to the hospital board
 * Should we clone thylacines?
 * Humans - pros and cons, should aliens save us?
 * The 'worth' of an animal
 * Pros and cons of food/clothes/medicine/animals
 * Different perspectives (animal's/smugglers'/etc)
 * Imagine an interlocked group... what happens if one is removed?
 * Be a mathematician - how many herbivores/carnivores for survival, and annihilation?

=** Skills for the Philosophy Trail: ** = * Communication for groupwork * Literacy (reading and writing) * Reasoning * Justifying * Giving evidence to back up what you say * Using prior knowledge * Using your imagination * Expressing your feelings * Thinking of other perspectives

* Recognising if your thinking has changed and why

**Philosophy Trail Plan:**

1. Complete the pre-visit task in workbook 2. Find group and complete first thinking task on booklet 3. Look through the images from the Melbourne Museum. Complete second thinking task on booklet 'The Tree of Life' 4. Find the correct image for your next thinking task. Work as a group and fill in the sheet 5. Teacher-led story and discussion. Fill in the sheet. 6. Complete the post-visit reflection task in workbook 7. Complete the two creative writing tasks 8. Make sure everything is handed in by the end of the term :)