2.  Express ideas about a difficult topic  Convince audience members your opinion is correct  Practice research skills  Build communication skills

3.  Judges decided which team best presents their information and best responses to the information from the other team  Audience before debate is asked to vote on an issue, then after the debate the audience votes again. If more audience members change to your side, your team wins

4. 1) Team for idea presents opening summary (5 mins) 2) Team against idea presents opening summary (5 mins) 3) Team for idea presents main reasons why they are right (3 mins) 4) Team against idea presents main reasons why they are right (3 mins) 5) Team for idea response to the other teams comments (3 mins) 6) Team against idea response to the other teams comments (3 mins) 7) Team for idea summaries ideas again (1 min) 8) Team against idea summaries ideas again (1 min)  A team of 1-2 will be the SPEAKERS, all other team members are only there for support

5.  The class will be broken into 4 teams; Two teams will debate each other and the other two teams will be judges, then switch  Team 1: More food production will end world hunger  Team 2: More food production will not end world hunger  Team 3: Changing the DNA of food will end world hunger  Team 4: Changing the DNA of food will not end world hunger

6. 1) You need real facts! The more information your team has, the more they can give a good reason for their side  Economic, Ethical, Moral, Scientific, Religious, Political, etc… 2) You need to respond to what the other team says! Ignoring the other team means you don’t understand the issue, so why should we believe you??? 3) You need to have clear list of things to discuss plus a list of things you think the other team will say!

7.  Round one will happen next Monday  Round two will happen the class after mid- terms  All Teams will be prepared to present Monday because you will not know which debate will occur that day  The winning team of each debate will get 10 bonus points to their GPA