Social studies
Is It Reliable? Sorting News and Online Sources
Students rate six described sources for reliability, sort fact from opinion, and rewrite a misleading headline.
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Health & physical ed.
Media Detective: Reading Images and Messages About Appearance
Students learn how images in ads and online feeds are staged and edited, analyze sample messages with a media-literacy table, and write a positive health message.
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.
English language arts
Spot That Fallacy: Nine Faulty Arguments
Students match nine original examples to the logical fallacy each one commits, pick the sound argument, and repair a flawed one.
Social studies
Spot the Technique: Media Literacy and Propaganda
Students learn eight persuasion and propaganda techniques, identify them in made-up ads and slogans, and practice asking smart questions about any source.
Social studies
The Case of the Missing Trophy: A Forensic Reasoning Puzzle
Students analyze evidence in a fictional school theft case, separate direct from circumstantial evidence, and avoid jumping to conclusions.