Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Use Philosophical Exercises? -- How Are the Philosophical Exercises Organized? -- How Are the Philosophical Exercises Used? -- Tips for Successful Pre-College Philosophy Sessions -- Lesson Plans -- Chapter One: What Is Philosophy? -- Lesson Plan: Are You a Philosopher? -- Lesson Plan: "One Rule" Game -- Lesson Plan: The Three Questions -- Lesson Plan: Energizer Activity-Word Association -- Lesson Plan: Blind Painter -- Lesson Plan: Keep the Question Going -- Lesson Plan: Sense and Nonsense -- Notes -- Chapter Two: What Is Good Thinking? -- Lesson Plan: Good News, Bad News -- Lesson Plan: A Little Logic -- Lesson Plan: How Many of These Do You Know To Be True? -- Note -- Chapter Three: What Do I Know? -- Lesson Plan: "What's Your Reason?" Game -- Lesson Plan: Two Trues, One False -- Lesson Plan: The "Egg Drop" Game -- Lesson Plan: Assassin Game -- Lesson Plan: "Hypothesis Generation" Exercise -- Lesson Plan: Which Story Is True? -- Lesson Plan: "What Do I Know (About This Strawberry)?" Exercise -- Lesson Plan: "Confirmation Bias" Exercise -- Notes -- Chapter Four: What Is Real? -- Lesson Plan: Reality Scavenger Hunt -- Lesson Plan: "What Makes the Team the Team?" Exercise -- Lesson Plan: What Makes Me Me? -- Lesson Plan: Could Anything Else Have Happened? -- Lesson Plan: Got a Minute? -- Chapter Five: What Is Art? -- Lesson Plan: Aesthetics Scavenger Hunt -- Lesson Plan: "Smoke" -- Lesson Plan: Art Market -- Chapter Six: What Is the Right Thing to Do? -- Lesson Plan: "Ring of Gyges" Diary -- Lesson Plan: "Lifeboat" Exercise -- Lesson Plan: "What Do Rights Look Like?" Exercise -- Lesson Plan: The "Red/Green" Game -- Lesson Plan: "Hand Dealt" -- Lesson Plan: Fair or Equal? -- Lesson Plan: Ants and Chocolate -- Lesson Plan: Fish and Candy -- Notes -- Chapter Seven: What Is the Meaning of Life?.

Lesson Plan: What's Worth Doing? -- Lesson Plan: "What Is the Meaning of Life?" Game -- Lesson Plan: "Why?" -- Chapter Eight: Eleven Recommended Readings for Exploring Philosophy with Children -- Reading: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, "A Mad Tea-Party" -- Reading: Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit -- Reading: Bernard Wiseman, Morris the Moose -- Reading: Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, "The Tesseract" -- Reading: Amy Goldman Koss, The Ashwater Experiment -- Reading: J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them -- Reading: Frank L. Baum, The Tin Woodman of Oz -- Reading: Frank Tashlin, The Bear That Wasn't -- Reading: William Steig, Yellow and Pink -- Reading: C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, chapter 5 -- Reading: Claudia Mills, Dinah Forever, chapter 3 -- Bibliography.