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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Why Do Philosophy with Young People? | |
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| Why Use Philosophical Exercises? | |
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| How Are the Philosophical Exercises Organized? | |
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| How Are the Philosophical Exercises Used? | |
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| Tips for Successful Pre-College Philosophy Sessions | |
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| Lesson Plans | |
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| What Is Philosophy? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Are You a Philosopher? | |
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| Lesson Plan: "One Rule" Game | |
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| Lesson Plan: The Three Questions | |
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| Lesson Plan: Energizer Activity - Word Association | |
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| Lesson Plan: Blind Painter | |
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| Lesson Plan: Keep the Question Going | |
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| Lesson Plan: Sense and Nonsense | |
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| Notes | |
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| What Is Good Thinking? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Good News, Bad News | |
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| Lesson Plan: A Little Logic | |
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| Lesson Plan: How Many of These Do You Know To Be True? | |
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| Note | |
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| What Do I Know? | |
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| Lesson Plan: "What's Your Reason?" Game | |
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| Lesson Plan: Two Trues, One False | |
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| Lesson Plan: The "Egg Drop" Game | |
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| Lesson Plan: Assassin Game | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Hyphothesis Generation" Exercise | |
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| Lesson Plan: Which Story Is True? | |
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| Lesson Plan: "What Do I Know (About This Strawberry)?" Exercise | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Confirmation Bias" Exercise | |
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| Notes | |
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| What Is Real? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Reality Scavenger Hunt | |
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| Lesson Plan: "What Makes the Team the Team?" Exercise | |
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| Lesson Plan: What Makes Me Me? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Could Anything Else Have Happened? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Got a Minute? | |
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| What Is Art? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Aesthetics Scavenger Hunt | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Smoke" | |
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| Lesson Plan: Art Market | |
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| What Is the Right Thing to Do? | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Ring of Gyges" Diary | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Lifeboat" Exercise | |
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| Lesson Plan: "What Do Rights Look Like?" Excercise | |
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| Lesson Plan: The "Red/Green" Game | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Hand Dealt" | |
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| Lesson Plan: Fair or Equal? | |
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| Lesson Plan: Ants and Chocolate | |
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| Lesson Plan: Fish and Candy | |
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| Notes | |
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| What Is the Meaning of Life? | |
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| Lesson Plan: What's Worth Doing? | |
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| Lesson Plan: "What Is the Meaning of Life?" Game | |
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| Lesson Plan: "Why?" | |
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| Eleven Recommended Readings for Exploring Philosophy with Children | |
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| Reading: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, "A Mad Tea-Party" | |
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| Reading: Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit | |
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| Reading: Bernard Wiseman, Morris the Moose | |
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| Reading: Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, "The Tesseract" | |
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| Reading: Amy Goldman Koss, The Ashwater Experiment | |
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| Reading: J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | |
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| Reading: Frank L. Baum, The Tin Woodman of Oz | |
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| Reading: Frank Tashlin, The Bear That Wasn's | |
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| Reading: William Steig, Yellow and Pink | |
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| Reading: C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Chapter 5 | |
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| Reading: Claudia Mills, Dinah Forever, chapter 3 | |
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| Bibliography | |