1. Intellectual Curiosity
ILS SESSION
Intellectual Curiosity

2. Intellectual Curiosity
‘Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.’
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Get students to come up with their own definition of what they think it means – feedback to whiteboard
‘I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.’
Albert Einstein
WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

3. Intellectual Curiosity
Definition of CURIOSITY
desire to know:
a : inquisitive interest in others' concerns : nosiness
b : interest leading to inquiry <intellectual curiosity>

4. Give me three reasons as to why you picked your subjects in sixth form.
Feedback to whiteboard and count the ‘interested’ responses up to make that point that most of them believe they are inquisitive people

5. Intellectual Curiosity
Being intellectually curious is all about asking questions, not about having answers. It's about believing in the pursuit of knowledge as a value in and of itself.

6. Intellectual Curiosity
Are you the kind of person who can never learn enough, or are you the kind of person who believes that, for every new thing you learn, you lose something else that might be valuable?

7. Intellectual Curiosity
The kind of person who believes that, for every new thing you learn, you lose something else that might be valuable is WRONG!

8. Intellectual Curiosity
Creative and exploratory thinking
In Psychology we have just covered the topic of Multiple Personality Disorder.
How much independent research did you do on MPD?
Did you all find it interesting?
For other subjects add something you have just done
Student feedback – tally up people who went and looked into it

9. Intellectual Curiosity
Creative and exploratory thinking
In Psychology we have just covered the topic of Multiple Personality Disorder.
So WHY did SOME of you not look into it?
Students feedback

10. Intellectual Curiosity
Are you in the habit of creative and exploratory thinking?
Why not broaden your horizons, learn beyond the textbook and curriculum and prepare yourself for the future?
There is only so much information you can learn in a lesson.
Students feedback

11. Secret of the Wild Child
Watch the following clip
As you watch you must think of at least 3 questions you would like to find the answer to. They can be about Genie or general questions.
Click on picture for clip. In pairs swap questions and go to the library for 15 mins to try and answer the q’s they have created.

12. Secret of the Wild Child
What did you find out?
How did you find it out?
Now you know about a case of a feral child and some information around it.
Feedback to whiteboard on information found to build a bigger picture.

13. In what areas of your life could you now use this information to help you?
Onus on learning to be inquisitive with leads on to being knowledgeable in life generally (HOME, FRIENDS AND UNI).