Fake News Hunt Activity

Fake news hunt worksheet: students find a news article online and question it with who, what, where, when and why prompts about the author, fact versus opinion, the website and the posting date.
Year levels
Years 3–10
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Updated Oct 22, 2024

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Life Skills, Special Resources
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Activity Introduction

An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about social and soft skills in our daily life.

Fake News Hunt

Have you ever read about soft skills or social skills? If yes, can you tell us more about them?

Body language is so important for us to learn about, as it teaches us how to deliver the correct message to the people we are talking to, and get the right message from the people who talk to us, by simply reading their body language.

What do you know about etiquette? Do you know that every country has got its unique etiquette? What do you know about online etiquette?

What is your strongest soft/social skill?

Can you name other social or soft skills?

Do you think we should be always nice to our friends and family?

Do you think we should be kind with animals?

The activity is perfect for encouraging the researching skills for the students, while learning more about these fantastic social and soft skills in our daily life.

Fake News Hunt

This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.

Instructions

Look for some news online, then fill out the information below about it.

Format

Available in a PDF format.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Evaluate whether an online news source is reliable

  • Distinguish fact from opinion in a news article

  • Check an article's author, website and date

Teaching tips

  • Students need internet access to find an article, so you could supply a short list of sites to search if open browsing is not an option.

Skills covered

  • Source checking — judging an author's expertise and a site's reputation

  • Fact versus opinion — sorting the claims in a real article

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