Topics+for+TOK

__**Possible TOK Topics**__ **Global Warming**
 * Knowledge issues: “Can we be certain that global warming is taking place?” or, “Does language (or the use of statistics, graphs, photographs) affect our view of whether or not the planet is undergoing global warming?”
 * Format: Students analyse and critically evaluate video and newspaper clips involving the views of experts, politicians and activists who defend or dispute the notion that the planet is suffering from global warming. Each member of the group draws attention to different aspects of the evidence—the nature of the words used, statistics and graphs, photographs.
 * Knower’s (student’s) point of view: As a group, students suggest that the evidence in favour of global warming seems compelling, but underline that in some cases it is difficult to separate some protagonists’ positions and how they are formulated from the interest groups they represent?

**What evidence is there about how dinosaurs looked and behaved?**


 *  Knowledge issues: Are the methods of paleontology more like a science such as physics, or more like history?
 * Format: Showing and discussion of a clip from the TV documentary Walking with Dinosaurs on how dinosaurs lived, showing a detailed scene from the life of a particular dinosaur, with a commentary presented as if this were a real scene.
 * Knower’s (student’s) point of view: How far is it legitimate for TV programmes to go, to make their subject matter entertaining?