Yahoo Creek - Debate Topics
This set of debate prompt cards helps students develop persuasive speaking and critical thinking skills. Each card presents a topic related to Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery, historical evidence and belief in myths. Students are encouraged to take a position, prepare reasons and evidence and practise respectful debate. The prompts support oral language, structured argument and consideration of multiple perspectives.
Learning goals
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and to begin using our growing knowledge base to evaluate texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and to use and expand on our knowledge to analyse and evaluate texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information, comparing content from a variety of print and digital sources.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to find literal and inferred meaning in texts and to begin using our growing knowledge base to evaluate texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.