Lesson slides, plan and worksheet for teaching Knowledge and Indigenous Societies. Using the Peruvian quipu as an object to help guide knowledge questions.

L/Os
• Explain how the quipu encoded knowledge (decimal place value, knot clusters, positional zero) and what problems it solved for the Inca state.
• Analyse the quipu through the four elements of the knowledge framework: scope, perspectives, methods and tools, ethics.
• Evaluate competing claims about indigenous knowledge (Is it writing? Who owns it? Can outsiders recover it?) with reasons and evidence.
• Formulate a second-order knowledge question suitable for TOK exhibition.