5th Grade Socratic Seminar
Jeri Lodato
Through a Socratic seminar, 5th-grade students learned about different interest groups' influence concerning the natural resources of the Amazon rainforest. Each student represented an environmentalist, a settler, a cattle rancher, a native Amazonian, the Brazilian government, a rubber tapper, or a logger. After sharing a short speech about their group's interest, students worked to devise a solution to satisfy all parties.