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Debating resources for secondary schools
- Five steps for preparing a debate with a class
- Short activities and exercises
- Top ten style tips for persuasive speaking
- Questions to ask yourself while debating
- Using an hour to prepare for a debate
- How do I speak for up to five minutes?
- Different forms of rebuttal
- Rebuttal worksheets
- Guidance for chairpersons in a debate
- Note-writing frames for 3-a-side debates
- Note-writing frames for BP (British Parliamentary) debates
Lesson Plans
- Mission to Mars – Science lesson plan
- Living near a volcano – Geography lesson plan
- Noughts and Crosses Newsroom lesson plan
- Role play for humanities teachers
- Lesson idea: Who should have the power?
- Frankenstein Argument stations
- An active-learning scheme of work comparing parliamentary debates in Westminster, Holyrood and Berlin
- Introducing debate in the Citizenship classroom