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How to make philosophy engaging for teens?

I'm a secondary school teacher and this year I will have a class of 16 year olds once a week for philosophy. I did a year of philosophy as part of my undergrad but have never taught it before. Does anyone have any ideas of topics to cover, activities, resources, ways to make it interesting and relevant, ways to assess the students etc? I'm hoping if this is successful the school may timetable it again next year

Edit to include: Just FYI, this is a non-optional course, students are being given an introduction to a variety of non curricular subjects on a rotational basis. I'll have one group once a week for 11 weeks then they'll move onto Chinese and I'll get a totally new group of students. They aren't students who have chosen to do philosophy or who even know what philosophy is, my main challenge is to engage them, to make it simple and to make it relevant to them.
Thanks for the advice so far!
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cyborgs, clones and beaming.

cyborgs: kind of the ship of theseus - what happens, if you replace part after part from the human body with electronics? at what point is it not human anymore? is it "human", if it's all machine but biological brain? is it human if all biological but perfectly replicated brain (including all memories)?

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clones: how can you define the real "you", what makes the clone differ from you?

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beaming: this beaming story where it discusses, if you die every. single. time. you are beaming yourself. or are there 2 separates you at one point? are you dead for a brief moment?

(there are serious philosophical resources regarding these topics)

after you got them engaged: hit them with "Kritik der reinen Vernunft"