1. Goals/Objectives
1a) Skill set
Students will develop the capability to provide reasons supporting their opinions.
Students may have opinions coming into the lesson, but will be able to add
reasons to those opinions at the end of the lesson
1b) Conceptual understanding
Students should be able to distinguish between a scientific discussion (one whose
merits can be decided based on empirical data), an uncritical discussion (one
which is merely exchanging opinions) and a philosophical discussion (one
characterized by reasons supporting opinions and one that may not have a definite
answer)