How to Give a Great Debate

This is Lesson One of a series which builds the students’ abilities to be able to critically assess a concept, and appropriately argue from a given stand point. In sum, the series will give the students the tools to appropriately articulate evidence of critical thinking and empathy with different viewpoints.

This pack provides all that is required for the lesson including:

A micro-timed and detailed lesson plan;

A PowerPoint presentation;

2 worksheets;

1 Handout.

The lesson-specific objectives are:

How to Give a Great Debate – Introduction.

Learning Objectives:

Identify, understand and apply basics of critical thinking.
Articulate examples of critical thinking by means of constructive disagreement.
Apply appropriate terminology in order to offer opinion.
Differentiate between fact and opinion.