APUSH lesson plans
Philosophical Chairs ?Should the Theory of Evolution be taught in public schools?? *Students will prepare a debate of the ?Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.? <>VIEWPOINT<> *The teacher will have students draw from a hat whose position for which they will argue. The number of students in the class will be divided by two (if there are 30 students, there will be 15 ballots against teaching Theory of Evolution and 15 ballots promoting the teaching of the Theory of Evolution) <>PHILISOPHICAL CHAIRS<> *Students will be given copies of: ?State v. John Scopes (The Monkey Trial)? by Douglas O. Linder ?What is Darwin's Theory of Evolution?? by Ker Than ?Evolution? Impossible? by Answers in Genesis.org to prepare their arguments for debate.