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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