ocr: Learning Extra Human Factor Key Issue of the Tropics (Page 1 of2) Organizing a structured controversy in the classroom. DESCRIPTION When organizing a structured controversy on the tropical forest, have students choose an issue which relates to the tropical forests on which two or more well documented, and opposing positions can be taken (Commercial loggers VS cattle ranchers; population experts VS indigenous tribes, for example); by teaching them specific procedures about rational argument consider the following: generate ideas, collect and organize relevant information, reason logically, expr ...