Fake News Hunt Activity

- Year levels
- Years 3–10
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- Life Skills, Special Resources
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- Fake News Hunt Activity, Fake News Hunt
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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.
In the classroom
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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Media literacy
Fake news
Fact and opinion
Reliable sources
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