Persuasive Speech Topics

Abortion Adoption laws Advertising in schools Affirmative action Affordable Healthcare Affordable Housing Age Discrimination Agriculture Practices Airbags Alcohol Abuse Alternative Energy Sources Alzheimer's Research Animal Rights Animal Testing Be creative Be honest Become a teacher Becoming your best self Bilingual Education Breast Cancer Bullying Campaign Financing Charter Schools Child Abuse Child-Custody Laws Clean Water Cloning College Tuition Colonization on Mars Conspiracy Theories Cyber Security Dangers of Gambling Death Penalty Designer Children DNA Testing Do something you love Drug Free Living Drug Prevention Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Eating Disorders Education inequity Equality in the U.S.A. Erasing Labels Fighting Hunger Fighting Racism Finding Serenity Free College Free Internet Gambling Gay Rights Genetic Engineering Genetically Modified Foods Global Issues Global Warming Gun Control Happiness is worth it Healthcare Costs Healthy Living Home Schooling Homelessness Human Rights Human Trafficking Identity Theft Illiteracy Immigration Laws Learn Conflict Resolution Skills Listening Marriage Equality Medical Malpractice Medical Marijuana Legalization Mental Heath Misinformation National Defense NSA (National Security Administration) Nuclear Weapons Organ Donation Organic Farming Passion Projects Pesticides Physical Education Prescription Drug Cost Prostitution Public Transportation Random Acts of Kindness Register to Vote Required Courses Responsible Journalism Road Rage Scholarship Programs School Choice Self Defense Laws Sex Education Skin Cancer Smart Houses Social Media Social Networking Social Security Space Travel Spay or Neuter Pets Speed Limits Standardized Testing Stem Cell Research STI Awareness and Prevention Studying Abroad Suicide prevention Surveillance Sweatshops Teach Diplomacy Tenants Rights The arts are important Time Management Tipping Treating Drug Addiction Truth in Advertising Universal Basic Income Universal Healthcare Violence in Video Games Wage inequity Why you should learn about history You should play an instrument

Here is a short video to help you choose your topic:

Academic dishonesty/ cheating

Access to clean Water

Adolescent Brain

Adopting and fostering children

Air pollution

Airline accidents

Alternative fuels

Alternative medicine: Herbs and Acupuncture

Alzheimer’s disease

Amusement parks in Florida

Animal communication

Animal extinction

Animal training

Antibiotics (History of)

Antiquing

Archaeological finds

Architectural design

Art Appreciation: Explore a work of Art

Art Appreciation: Impressionist Period

Art Appreciation: Renaissance Period

Art therapy

Art treasures

Artificial Intelligence

ASL and Deaf Culture

Assassinations

Assisted suicide

Athletes psychology

Attending UCF (or another Florida College)

Attention Deficit Disorder

Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Autoimmune Disorders

Automobiles electric and self-driving vehicles

Baking 101

Beekeeping

Being the designated driver

Benefits of exercise

Benefits of healthy living

Better parenting

Biotechnology & genetics

Bipolar Disorder and other mental health topics

Bird-watching

Black Lives Matter Movement

Blood banks and the importance of donating blood

Blood pressure health

Bullying

Caffeine

Cancer (identify a specific type)

Car pooling and public transportation

Cat Behaviors

Cat-fishing

Cave drawings

Cell phone etiquette

Censored books and book banning

Censorship in the arts

Child support enforcement

City planning in your city

Civil liberties

Clean Energy

Climate Change

Climatic changes

Cloning

Cocaine origin and effects

College athletics responsibility and effects

College campus crimes

Colonizing Mars

Common cold prevention

Common Scams

Communicating concerns to your doctor

Communication in the family

Computer viruses

Con artists

Consumer protection

Coral reef ecology and preservation

Cosmetic surgery

Cosmic rays

COVID-19

Coyotes in Lake County

Credit card fraud

Criminal behavior

Cuisine of the world

Cults and behavior

Decreasing Debt and/or Building Credit

Deep-sea ecology

Deficit spending, the U.S. Economy

Depression and treatments

Desalinization of water

Diabetes Type 1 or Type 2

Dinosaurs from the U.S.

Diplomacy

DNA fingerprints

Dog Behaviors

Dolly Parton (Musician)

Dolphins

Dreams (interpretation and lucid dreaming)

Drinking and driving (effects of)

Dyslexia and other learning disorders

Earth friendly makeup, healthcare, and cleaners

Effective Listening

Elvis Presley (Musician)

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Endangered species

Engineering

English Language: euphemisms

English Language: imagery

Environmental protection

Explore a Political System (Explain it to us)

Explore another Country (Take us on a Tour)

Faith Practices Around the World

Family therapy

Famous Painters: Salvador Dali

Fashion design

Fingerprints

Florida Beaches

Food allergies

Fossils

Galaxies

Genetic engineering

Government secrecy and the NSA

Great National Parks

Green movement

Grief and 5 stages of healing

Gullah dialect

Hallucinations

Handwriting analysis

Happiness

Hate crimes

Hazing

Health of workers

Hearing impairments

Heart disease

High blood pressure

High speed trains

Hiking in Florida

Historical Movement: Civil Rights

History of Cinema

History of Comics

History of Cuisine

History of Fashion

History of Gun Control and the Second Amendment in the U.S.

History of Music in America

History of Video Games

History of Women's Rights

History: The 1950s

History: The 1960s

History: The 1970s

History: The 1980s

Holistic medicine

Holocaust, Jewish

Holocaust, Native American

Home accidents

Home design

Homeless persons

Homemade household cleaners

Homeopathy

Home-schooling

Hong Kong Fugitive Offenders amendment bill

Horse-racing

How to be a social media influencer

How to become a Youtuber

How to build a budget

How to learn a new language

How to Love to Learn

How to prevent the flu

How to start a business

How to use technology to create art

Hurricane Preparation

Hypnotism

Identifying and building our leadership skills

Identifying Learning disabilities

Illiteracy

Immigration system in the U.S.

Immune system

Impact of Social Media

Importance of communication

Indoor air pollution

Influential Person of Choice

Insects as food

Insomnia

Insurance, health

Intelligence tests (IQ)

Interesting Animals

Internet privacy

Interviewing Skills

Jails, overcrowding

Jazz Era

Joining the Military

Journaling

Jury Duty

K-pop and cultural influence

Lake County, FL Lakes

Landfills

Learning Styles

Legalization of drugs

LGBTQ+ culture and identity

Lightning Strikes

Literary Criticism

Living Abroad

Living in the Arctic

Living wills

Love bugs

LSD

Magic

Manatees

Mandatory sentences

Maps

Marathon running training for a marathon

Marijuana

Marine pollution

Marriage customs

Massage

Math Appreciation: Big Numbers

Mediation

Memory techniques

Midwifery

Migraines and other types of headaches

Migrant labor

Minimum Wage

Misdiagnosis

Mold

Motorcycle gangs

Mountain Climbing

Multiple sclerosis

Mushrooms: friend or foe and farming

Music Appreciation: Explore a work of Art

Music Festivals

Music therapy

Mythology: Greek, Roman, Keltic, or other types

National parks

Neanderthals

Note-taking and other study skills

Nuclear energy

Nuclear Power

Nuclear proliferation

Occupational therapy

Ocean dumping

Ocean fishing

Online Streaming

Oral tradition and Folk Lore

Organically grown food

Organized crime

Overcoming math anxiety

Pain relievers

Pandas bear protection

Panic and Anxiety attacks

Performance art

Personality Traits

Philosophy: Aristotle

Philosophy: Plato (Socrates)

Phobias and fears

Plants, medicinal

Poaching

Polar Bear migration

Police, job stress

Political advertising

Political Attack Ads

Polygraphs

Prehistoric animals

Prehistoric painting

Premature infants

Preventable death

Preventing athletic injury

Preventing Cyber Attacks

Preventing Heatstroke

Preventing Pollution

Propaganda

Protecting our skin in Florida

Protecting the Rain forests

Random Acts of Kindness

Recycling (is it effective?)

Reducing College Costs

Rehabilitation

Renewable energy resources

Reproductive Health

Road Rage

Schizophrenia and other mental health illnesses

Science of Ancestry Sites (like 23 and Me)

Science of fun

Science of Pain

Sea turtle protection

Self-defense

Serotonin and other hormones

Seven Wonders of the World

Sexual Assault

Sexual Health and STI Prevention

Sharks

Should we take online classes

Sloths, Meerkats, and other cute animals

Space Junk

Speech Therapy

Sports injuries

Starting a Garden in Florida

Stress Management

Student Loans

Studying Abroad

Supreme Court of the U.S.

Surviving a Natural Disaster

Survival skills

Surviving Abuse

Taxes and the tax system in the U.S.

The American Revolution

The Arab Spring

The Beatles  (Band)

The French Revolution

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The History of Crime in the U.S.

The importance of…(finish the statement)

The War on Drugs

Time management

Tiny Homes

Treasure Hunting

Veganism or a plant based diet

Virtues

Volunteerism

Weather forecasting

What does the future look like?

What is a Democracy?

What makes music great?

Why we should invest in… (finish the statement)

Women in Art