Search results: Connect - Civics and Citizenship - Debates and public speaking

• 1 IDEA

  International Debate Education Association provides debating resources with a huge range of topics, skill builders, and exercises.

  URL: http://www.idebate.org/ [metadata]
• 2 Persuasion Map for Debating

  The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate. Create a framework for an argument or debate on a printable document. Similar to Inspiration, but in paper form.

  URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/ [metadata]
• 3 ProCon Debating and issues resources

  A non-partisan, non-profit website presenting both sides of current and perennial issues. Also feedback on continuing social topics.

  URL: http://www.procon.org/?gclid=CNag3OS3wYoCFRNGGAodNUOlkw [metadata]
• 4 Rubric for Debating

  A printable template providing assessment criteria for school level debates.

  URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson819/rubric2.pdf [metadata]
• 5 The Educators desk Debate lesson plans

  Collection of debating lesson plans for middle years and secondary and including introduction to argument.

  URL: http://www.sites4teachers.com/links/redirect.php?url=http://eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Debate [metadata]
• 6 Using Fairy Tales to Debate Ethics

  Teacher resources for the use of fables as classroom debate starters. Includes web links to fairytale samples.

  URL: http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr295.shtml [metadata]
• 7 I beg to differ: Debating

  Complete course in debating including printable exercises, student resources, assessment guide and regional web links.

  URL: http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/debating/ [metadata]
• 8 Wikipedia: Debate

  Australasian debates, list of famous debaters, types of debate and external links.

  URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate [metadata]
• 9 Debatepedia

  Online debating site where students can contribute their arguments to worldwide debates. Debatepedia is a wiki encyclopedia project of the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) and Georgetown University students.

  URL: http://wiki.idebate.org/ [metadata]
• 10 ABC FORA - ABC TV

  Combining content sourced by the ABC from talks and events all over Australia with the international material provided by fora.tv, ABC Fora will bring you the most engaging and interesting speeches and debates from all over the world.

  URL: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/ [metadata]