We advertise on our Toilet Paper newsletter (located in the staff bathrooms) pop-up mini-lessons. The Fake News lesson is a popular lesson.
With so many resources available, we designed a quick lesson focusing on four areas including clickbait, speed, distrust, and ads.
- Start with posting the headlines (below) around the room on whiteboards. Students visit each headline and mark if they think it is a false headline.
- Discuss the first question on the Slides.
- Students go back to the boards and put a star by the articles they would click.
- Discuss the correlation between the fake and what we choose to click. Introduce clickbait.
- Show the timeline for the news to report a recent event. Slides include the Kobe Bryant report.
- Discuss the distrust issue.
- Use the slide to discuss sponsors/ad information.
- Introduce lateral reading. Students choose a headline and research the validity of the headlines.
- As a class, go around the room and note which headline is true and false.
Google Slides
Headlines (print and post headlines around the room)