Study skills & advisory
Can You Trust It? Evaluating Sources
Students learn five questions for judging a source, apply them to four described sources about homework, rate each as strong or weak, and explain why.
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Social studies
Read Like a Historian: An Invented Letter to the Editor
Students analyze an invented 1911 letter to the editor for author, purpose, bias, fact versus opinion, and missing viewpoints.
Mathematics
Sampling, Bias and Misleading Claims
Students classify sampling methods, spot biased samples and questions, separate correlation from causation, and expose a truncated bar graph with arithmetic.
Technology & computer science
Teaching a Computer with Examples: A Paper Nearest-Neighbor Classifier
Students act as a simple machine-learning program that labels messages by comparing them with labeled examples, then discuss what can go wrong.
Social studies
Thinking Traps: Spotting Cognitive Biases in Everyday Choices
Students learn seven common cognitive biases, identify each one in a short scenario, and write a question that would reduce each bias.
English language arts
Who Can You Trust? Evaluating Bias and Credibility in Three Sources
Students compare three original sources about a made-up study gummy, chart each source’s author, purpose and evidence, and rate credibility.