Science Socratic Seminar - Are Viruses Dead or Alive?

This product is designed to improve students' speaking and listening skills in a science classroom while pushing them to analyze a scientific text. In science, there is more and more debate on whether or not viruses are considered living or non-living which gives us the opportunity to push our students to use this topic as conversation in the classroom.

This product includes:
- A text (source cited on page)

- bigger thought provoking questions

- instructions for students to create their own questions for the seminar

- a self reflection sheet and rubric

- a peer observation sheet (for outside circle participant)