Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
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Description
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills with our thought-provoking, no-prep growing debates bundle. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.
Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining your opinion through knowledge gained in the debate.
Our bundle currently contains 60 different debate topics and 1200 debate prompts.
What's included in each debate package:
- 20 debate prompts
- 2 pages of teaching instructions (4 different debate formats outlined)
- 3 pages of useful expressions and transitions for debating (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phrases to create an effective debate)
- 6 worksheets for students to record their research findings, formulate their argument, and track down any changes they may have in opinion throughout the debate
- A checklist for writing a persuasive essay (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phrases to create an effective persuasive essay)
- A checklist of useful transition words for writing a successful essay (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phrases to create an effective discussion)
- Essay writing pages (Lined pages should the teacher decide to use the discussion questions or quotes as writing prompts)
- 4 posters for the 'Four Corners Debate (to print/laminate)
- A student evaluation form for students to fill in after debate (3-page detailed student reflection/evaluation form)
- A teacher evaluation form for teachers to fill in after debate (2-page detailed student reflection/evaluation form)
- A colored version (to use digitally or to print)
- A printer-friendly black-and-white version
- Badges to print/laminate
- Teacher information and tips on how to incorporate into your lesson
We truly hope you find this resource both engaging and educational. We would love to hear back from you with your thoughts and feedback.
Thank you!
Purchase the bundle now and secure every new debate package we create at no extra cost. Please note that as we create more debate files, they will be added to the bundle and customers who have already purchased our bundle will have access to each new file we add at no extra cost!
Please contact us for any questions or concerns!
Newest file added: Jan. 1st, 2023- Entrepreneurship
Newest file added: Jan. 5th, 2023- Community
Newest file added: Jan. 9th, 2023- Poverty
Newest file added: Jan. 15th, 2023- Sustainability
Newest file added: Jan. 23rd, 2023- Charity
Newest file added: Jan. 26th, 2023- Human Nature
Newest file added: Jan. 29th, 2023- Influencers
Newest file added: Feb. 16th, 2023- School & Education
Newest file added: Feb. 19th, 2023- Music
Newest file added: Feb. 23rd, 2023- Nutrition
Newest file added: Feb. 25th, 2023- Photography
Newest file added: Feb. 28th, 2023- Quality of Life
Newest file added: March 1st, 2023- Music
Newest file added: March 2nd, 2023- The Woke Generation
Newest file added: March 5th, 2023- School & Technology
Newest file added: March 10th, 2023- Challenges
Newest file added: March 15th, 2023- TikTok
Newest file added: March 20th, 2023- Cyberbullying
Newest file added: March 27th, 2023- Big Pharma
Newest file added: April 2nd, 2023- Democracy
Newest file added: April 14th, 2023- Advertising
Newest file added: April 17th, 2023- Beauty Filters
If you are looking for a collection of all of our class discussion packages and an excellent opportunity to save money, take a look at our Growing Class Discussions Bundle.
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Further reading you may be interested in:
Silence in classroom discussions- should you be worried?
Authentic participation for successful discussions in the classroom
Creating an emotionally safe classroom for successful class discussions
Six simple formats for powerful class discussions
How to foster a sense of community with student-driven class discussions
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