Content Partner
Amazing People Schools
Explore the people behind the ideas.
Amazing People Schools brings history and human achievement to life through stories centred on remarkable people. Its content can help students encounter gamechangers from across history, ideas and achievements in a more personal context, creating opportunities to explore character strengths, and the human stories behind significant moments.
About this partner
Meet Amazing People Schools.
Amazing People Schools contributes stories of remarkable people to the Sensible-VR learning library. These experiences offer a human starting point for examining history, ideas and achievement. Instead of considering a discovery or event only as a fact to remember, learners can discuss the people, their character strengths and choices connected with it. Educators might use an experience to introduce further reading, compare perspectives or ask what questions a story leaves unanswered. Explore the published experiences below to find a person or story that connects with your teaching, then build on it with classroom sources and conversation.
Why it fits Sensible-VR
Explore the people behind the ideas.
Start with a learning question. Use the experience to observe, discuss and connect ideas with the rest of the lesson.
Human context
Connect historical ideas and achievements with the people behind them.
Questions and perspectives
Use a story to begin discussion and encourage further investigation.
Connections across subjects
Bring biography, history and reflection into the same learning conversation.
Featured Experiences
A few highlights from the library.
9 published experiences in this library.
View Wang Zhenyi
Wang Zhenyi
Meet Wang Zhenyi, the 18th-century Chinese astronomer, mathematician and poet whose character strengths: adaptability, curiosity, and empathy helped her challenge gender norms through her scientific learning and poetry.
View Strengths Framework
Strengths Framework
Explore the Amazing People Schools character-led approach and how real-life stories help learners recognise, value, and develop their own strengths.
View Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Explore the work of Rachel Carson, the marine biologist whose character strengths: appreciation, integrity and perseverance helped her write Silent Spring, the book that sparked the modern environmental movement.
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