Strategies for Educational Debate. This is an outline from the 1972 book by William C. Colburn. There are four topics to teach: 1) Analyzing arguments and propositions, 2) Evidence and Assertions, 3) Arguments, and 4) The debate setting.
(MSPDP) is the world's largest program for class and contest debating in the middle grades. Designed to teach public speaking, critical thinking, listening, and debating to students in the middle grades, the MSPDP works with teachers, administrators, parents, students, and community members to form sustainable debating leagues and classroom oral literacy initiatives.
Podcast of interschool debating done with Skype video conferencing. Students are Year 5 & 6 and this is their first experience with debating. Some resources we used are also in the post.