Taact will
be an educational resource platform which connects youth with academic
heavyweights.
Lessons will be written, run and influenced by an exceptional mix of
high-profile smart people including figures.
There are hundreds of lessons to develop!
The funding goal will help cover the costs of Patrick Moore's lesson, Peter Ridd's lesson and Zuby's.
Lesson Number: 1
Title: 3 photos
Topic: Australian History
Type: Animation https://youtu.be/JILvivRsRNY
Lesson Number: 2
Title: Climate Change Alarmism
Topic: Climate Realism
Type: Filmed lesson (resulting in multiple segments)
Teacher: Dr. Patrick Moore
Segment 1: https://youtu.be/MlMb7lE2hKM
Segment 2: https://youtu.be/ZtlLdzk7Y04
Segment 3: https://youtu.be/LQ_AaWGQEJs
Segment 4: https://youtu.be/QIYtTZEfG-s
Segment 5: https://youtu.be/cdUja_r7Li4
Lesson Number: 3
Title: The Great Barrier is not dying due to man-made climate change.
Topic: Climate Realism
Type: Filmed lesson (resulting in multiple segments)
Teacher: Dr. Peter Ridd
Segment 1: https://youtu.be/hAI_gOQr_jA
Segment 2: https://youtu.be/8ABmT6MYLHc
Lesson Number: 4
Title: Life, liberty and freedom with Zuby
Topic: Liberty and freedoms
Type: Filmed
Teacher: Zuby
Lesson Number: 5
Title: The untaught history of slavery
Topic:
History Removed
Type: Animation
Teacher:
Inspired by Thomas Sowell’s book: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Sowell
is an African-American.
Learning
goals: Provide an overview of the history of
slavery prior to the transatlantic slave trade, during and after. Learn who and
how abolished slavery. Move away from the misconception that slavery was
largely Africans enslaved by Europeans and their descendants in the southern
United States. Why is the present day focus and teaching of slavery fixated on
the antebellum south? Inducement of guilt benefits who exactly?
Overview: Slavery was suffered by the entire human race and was not limited to one race. The English spent decades travelling across the globe to abolish slavery. Slavery still exists today but why do present day images not induce such a reaction as slaves of old in the Americas? A larger number of Africans were enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa. A vast number of Europeans were enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates and European slaves were still being sold in Egypt years after the emancipation proclamation. Slavs were so widely used as slaves in both Europe and the Islamic world, that ‘slave’ derives from Slav, across multiple languages. Polynesians enslaved others and Maoris enslaved Polynesians. Indian tribes in America enslaved other Indians and indeed the last court case held to maintain the practice of slaves in America was held by native Indians. Slavery in India was commonplace, and still is today.
Lesson Number: 6
Title: Plato’s Cave
Topic:
Philosophy
Type: Animation
Teacher:
Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks
Learning
goals: Introduce Plato and Socrates. Introduce
Allegory of the Cave. Demonstrate how ancient wisdom is still relevant today. Ask
students to think critically about modern-day substitutes for the cave, the shadows
cast upon the wall and how one might escape the cave.
Overview:
The animation will provide a tour
through a painting of Plato’s allegory of the cave, providing an insight into the
different characters and the journey one needs to take to exit the cave, and re-enter
the cave to save other people.
The cave is a metaphor for two worlds. The lower, less-truthful world that surrounds us and as Plato puts it, we are born into, and the higher world, outside of the cave, that we all need to discover that exist outside of the shadows. A certain group of people (group A) exist in the lower part of the cave. They see shadows cast upon the wall which are created by a more shadowy, cloaked group of people and a fire. Group A believes these shadows to be their reality. A different group of people (group B) have already managed to leave the cave and have come back into the cave to rescue those stuck in the false reality. And from there, certain antics take place. Some will be brave and take the journey to leave the cave, while others will dismiss that there’s a reality outside of the cave. Some hints as to modern day versions of ‘the cave’ will be provided to conclude the lesson.
Lesson Number: 7
Title: The rising of the seas
Topic:
Australian history (related to climate realism)
Type: Animation
Teacher:
Inspired by Geoffrey Blainey
Learning
goals: Understand basic concepts of climate
change pre-1800. Understand that the climate has always changed and will
continue to do so. Understand the effects of historical climate change.
Overview:
Australia became isolated by sea before many new ideas and innovations took
hold further west. This began 18,000 years ago as the seas began to rise. The
seas were 130 metres lower than they are today. It began to rain less and cool
summers became warmer. Deserts advanced. The Gwion Gwion paintings in the
Kimberley and the arrival of a different race of people 20,000 years ago.
Aboriginal people retreat from the coast. Several thousand new islands. Pacific
and southern Indian Ocean merge to form Bass Straight – Tasmania becomes an
island. Aboriginals on Flinders Island disappeared 6,000 years ago. The climate
continued to become warmer until 8,000 years ago, where it was similar to
today’s climate and when the Great Barrier Reef started to form (older reefs
died out). Shorelines advanced up to five kilometres in a single year. Notable
changes in the landscape and weather. Torres Straight Islands were first
settled 4,000 years ago, when the sea settled at its current levels. Changing
flora and the introduction of the Eucalypt tree. Rising seas had profound
effects on traditional ways of life. Sea rise occurred for 11,000 years and was
dramatic for 6,000 of those. In the last short period the rise was dramatic and
for 3,000 years, levels were slightly higher than at present.
Critical
thinking questions:
·
The
Wallace’s Line prevented large predators from entering Australia as well as
modern developments coming out of Asian and European trade including gardening
and farming. If there was no Wallace’s Line, how would this have changed the
Australian landscape and peoples?
·
Is it possible to see that sea levels were slightly
higher than they were today?
· Why do you think the Aboriginals living on Flinders Island died out 6,000 years ago?
Lesson Number: 8
Title: Have you heard of the Uyghurs?
Topic:
Liberty and freedoms (totalitarianism and persecution)
Type: Animation
Teacher:
Uyghur Muslim
Learning
goals: Introduce the concept of communism
and totalitarianism. Discover that minority groups are persecuted by the
Chinese Communist Party. What is it like living in a communist country? What
can and can’t be said? What was life like prior to CCP takeover?
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