⭐This Organize a Debate Project Based Learning packet was created for 3rd – 5th grade students. The activities included will allow your students to practice their speaking and listening skills in an engaging way. This resource contains a standards-based unit in both printable PDF and Google Slides versions – so it’s the perfect activity to increase engagement and interest in any classroom.

⭐The standards addressed in this packet include:

• 3RD GRADE
  SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  SL.3.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
  W.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
  W.3.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

• 4TH GRADE
  W.4.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
  W.4.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
  SL.4.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  SL.4.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

• 5TH GRADE
  RI.5.6 Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
  RI.5.9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
  W.5.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
  SL.5.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  SL.5.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Key Features:

✏️ Printable & Digital Format – Printable PDF & Google Slides formats make this resource perfect for classroom instruction, distance learning, and everywhere in between. Digital and printable versions are consistent, so they can be used for combination classroom and virtual instruction situations.

✏️ Educational & Engaging – This resource will capture the imagination of your students while they practice their speaking and listening skills.

✏️ Differentiation – Different challenge activities mean that you can challenge your high-performing students while making the resource accessible to your on-level and below-level students.

What’s Included?

1. Teacher Directions & Standards Addressed
2. Debate Vocabulary Cards
3. What is a Debate? Activity Information
4. Sentence Starters Anchor Charts
5. Plastic Example: Opposing Passage, In Support Of Passage, Example Argument Organizers
6. Earth Day Passages
7. Argument Organizer
8. More Earth Day Research Topics
9. Research Organizer
10. Reflection