Sample Paideia Seminar Plans

The NPC has created a collection of hundreds of approved seminar plans that span all grade levels and all subject areas. Full access to this archive is available through a subscription, but we will always offer a select grouping of sample plans available for use free of charge. Our current offerings are categorized here by grade level; please scroll down to download them from the section at the bottom of the page. Please note that most of our Socratic Seminar plans can be revised to work effectively at multiple grade levels.

Elementary

1-100 Number Chart (Math)

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters (ELA, Schoolwide)

Human Skeleton (Science)

Persistence of Memory (ELA, Art)

Preamble to the US Constitution (Social Studies)

Middle School

Cherokee Removal Orders No. 25 (Social Studies)

Euclid Definitions (Math)

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Science)

High School

Euclid Definitions (Math)

Fern Hill (ELA)

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Science)

Let America Be America Again (Social Studies)

Periodic Table of the Elements (Science)

Second Coming (ELA)

Adult

Fern Hill 

Goods of the Mind

Let America Be America Again