Good List of Informative Speech Topics
May 21st, 2008 | 
Author: Here is a useful list of informative speech topics that any age could use:
History Of Barbie
Alternative Fuels
Internet Crimes
Chemical Warfare
History Of Comic Books
The Reality Show Phenomenon
Parental Child Abduction
The Day The Music Died
Herbs As Medicine
The History Of Tobacco Use
Liposuction
DNA Evidence
Nanotechnology
Lasik Surgery
History of Transplants
First Woman Astronaut
The History Of Greyhound Dogs
History Of Makeup
The Origin Of Alphabets
Tsunamis
Human Cadavers – History Of, Uses Of (Great Informative Book On This Subject – Stiff)
Dolly The Sheep (Very First Clone Of A Mammal)
Increase In Childhood Obesity
Botox (Now Being Found To Be Useful In Pain Control)
Women In The Military
Childhood Obesity
Genetically Modified Crops
REM Sleep (Dreaming)
History Of Smoking In Movies
Medicinal Marijuana
Use your imagination to create more speech topics
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i need a topic that lasts up to 8-10 min long and it has to be an informative/persuasive speech. a lot of suggestions on this website are about stuff i cant do. this is for a speech and debate tournament and the judges don’t want to hear much about drugs, history of stuff, and so on. one person told me that they were going to do ‘why not to drink bottled water’. I’m just having trouble finding the perfect topic. do you have any other suggestions???
Gavin,
Perfect speech topics usually center around current events. Look through your local newspaper and watch television news for speech topic ideas that ’sizzle’. Know your topic well. In other words, you must know the topic well enough to take a stand as well as show why other viewpoints don’t hold water. Also, keep in mind time constraints: instead of writing an essay-length on an entire topic, take just a piece of it and write around it. For example, if you are in favor of gun control and want to point out all the reasons why, that could make for a pretty lengthy speech. Instead, you could write about why certain weapons should absolutely not be allowed to be sold to the public.
Amye, please see the new topics on the site for your age group.
Oftentimes you can find great topics from the news in your neighborhood.
Hi i am supposed to give an informative or persuasive speech on something that is not controversial. i was thinking earthquakes or the sun, or maybe even 2012. Do u have any suggestions?
I need a topic that last for 3 min on over time it must be interesting,and grab the audience’s attention. Pleasae help me find a topic I need it in 3 weeks.
Hi Jessica,
I have a perfect topic for you that I happened to just write about. You’re welcome to glean what you want and put it into your own words. Check it out at http://hubpages.com/hub/Cultivate-Healthy-Cooking-in-Your-Kids-WITHOUT-HEAT. Funny thing: right after I submitted it, there was a new show on TV featuring a chef going into an elementary school to help get them off of serving lunches with preprocessed food. Childhood obesity is on the increase, along with the diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and early deaths. The article should give you some ideas on that as well as children needing to appreciate good food in their diets…not fast food and soda. That would be a good one.
I need an informative speech that lasts 5 minutes.
I want to do it on recycling.
In class we must have an outline, but I’m stuck on what to start with.
I can not have what I feel in the speech.
Also were do I find statistics on recycling?
Hi LySandra,
First of all, this is a really good place to start for your statistics: http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/United_States_Recycling_Statistics
Here is an outline template to go by: http://www.ismckenzie.com/outline-template-for-writing-a-speech/
For 5 minutes, you need to zero in on just ONE aspect of recycling and my husband and I just started one thing you’re free to write about. It started with my turtle who died in my outdoor pond (a rock came down on him during a bad windstorm). I wanted to bury him and told my husband to bury him in a grapefruit tree that was struggling. That tree is now going bonkers (due to the turtle’s protein and calcium shell, it fertilized the roots of the tree). My husband has really caught on and buries his banana peels in another tree: and it came back to life—big time. In other words, how to recycle fruit and vegetable peelings and create your own “compost” soil by burying them.
Hi Kath,
I think your topics are fine but both can get pretty involved. What you’re going to have to do to keep them under 4 minutes is to stick to only facts: not your opinions.
For your informative speech, you don’t use opinions that could be argued at all, so that one is pretty simple. You are going to describe middle child syndrome with basic facts: What it is, how it’s detected, and how it’s treated.
Now, for your persuasive speech, you need to be sure to address the OPPOSITE viewpoints in your speech as well as your own. So, you’re going to state FACTS about why people shouldn’t watch Spongebob but also why people think watching that show is a good thing. You’re presenting both sides in a persuasive argument so you can show why your position is the right one. Since you like the show, you could write it in reverse (and it might be easier) along the lines of “Spongebob should be mandatory for kids to watch” or “Watching Spongebob should be homework” (you could add a bit of humor to the second one which always holds an audience’s attention).
Remember with both speeches you need to have a brief introduction, the facts, then summarize your speech in a conclusion (where you reference BACK to your introduction/summary to add strength to the information).
Good Luck!
Hi Mano,
Is there an overall theme that you’re being asked to do a PPT presentation on? If not, go pick up a copy of your local newspaper and scour it for news that impacts your local community or national news. I do know that the new Immigration Law in Arizona is hot-hot right now. You could present both sides of the argument and include some other aspects such as other states that want to boycott Arizona. The law was just revised this morning due to so much public outcry about ‘racial profiling’. You can find more information about it here http://www.vpr.net/npr/126408343/ or by running a search on Google on “Arizona Immigration Law.”
If your presentation has a time limit, you could point out just one aspect of the impact of the new law: boycotting, lawsuits against, if it is racial profiling or just giving police to add on the ability to arrest, if Mexican illegal immigration to Arizona and other states will slow down or stop, etc.
Remember that, in general, PowerPoint presentations are informative—not persuasive—so you’ll want to just lay out factual data.
Good luck!
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can you give me a topic that would shock a professor. something that can actually make one cry but it should be an informative one.is there something like that?