Business & personal finance
Ad Detective: What Is This Ad Really Saying?
Students analyze six original, fictional ad descriptions, name the persuasion technique in each, separate claims from facts, and write their own ad concept.
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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.
Communications & media
Can You Trust This Source? Rating Five Sources
Students rate five invented sources about one school claim, match key source-evaluation terms, and plan how to verify a rumor.
Communications & media
Fact or Opinion? News Brief vs. Editorial
Students compare a neutral news brief with an editorial, sort statements into fact and opinion, and rewrite opinion as checkable fact.
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.
Technology & computer science
Is This Source Reliable? Judge Three Sample Websites
Students compare written descriptions of three fictional websites using author, evidence, date and purpose, and decide which are reliable.
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.
Communications & media
Press Ethics and Plagiarism: Six Case Studies
Students read short ethics cases about plagiarism, gifts, photo editing, privacy and corrections, then write a correction notice and a staff rule.
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.
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.
Technology & computer science
Your Digital Footprint: Active, Passive and Permanent
Students sort online actions into active and passive footprints, judge sample posts, and write a personal pause test for sharing online.