Karen Reynosa has developed a format for a classroom debate, which she has refined over the years while teaching Chemistry at Venice High School. An Invitation To Virtually Debate The ISSUES has borrowed extensively from Karen's development of this very interesting tool. Debate facilitates a person's displaying the progress in understanding issues related to important controversies with which our society is presently engaged, and to which this website is focused.

How can the process of debate be used to measure learning within a science classroom?

A Land ISSUES Debate

• Project: Malibu Land Use
• Debate Rules
• Karen's Rubric for evaluating performance by students in the debate
• A Form For Judging Debate Team Performance

Take a Virtual Tour of Karen conducting a debate at a session of the UCLA Summer Institutes.