How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and secondary...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn to differentiate fact from opinion and to decide whether an opinion is substantiated or not.

It is important to teach students the difference between facts and opinions. This is the groundwork for getting students to think critically when analyzing a piece of text. This lesson will help to lay the foundation for opinion writing....

As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this resource covers the basics of separating fact from opinion through a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify fact and opinion in a text. Lessons are based on the text "Dear Diary" and the book Penguins by Lynn M. Stone. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice,...

This is a PDF entitled "Distinguishing between Matters of Fact, Matters of Opinion, and Matters of Reasoned Judgement," which focuses on how to separate fact from opinion, provides examples, and offers a practice activity.

This short lesson plan provides a fairly simple way to teach young young scholars the difference between fact and opinion.

A lesson plan in which students play a game where they move around a board by determining if statements are facts or opinions. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to write facts and opinions on different word cards. Materials are included.

Learn about distinguishing fact from opinion and then practice this skill with a seven-question assessment.

In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn and practice separating fact from opinion.

This 10question, self-scoring quiz for fact or opinion, but it takes it further to include habit and schedule. Students read the statement and the possible choices and select the correct one. The options are explained with examples at...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to differentiate fact from opinion and to decide whether an opinion is substantiated or not. These are important reading and writing skills.

This is a 30 question quiz on separating fact from opinion. Students read the statement and select fact or opinion. Java plugin is required.

A lesson plan in which students play a football card game by determining if sentences are facts or opinions. Materials are included.

This short instructional activity provides a fairly simple way to teach young students the difference between fact and opinion.

Determine whether each statement is fact or opinion in this fifteen-question quiz.

Determine whether each statement is fact or opinion in this ten-question quiz.

Determine whether each statement is fact or opinion in this nine-question quiz.

A 25-question quiz where students must identify statements as fact or opinion. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Presents the relationships of facts, explanations, and opinions in science.

Read a story on Facebook. Read the headline and think it's too good to be true, but it looks like it's from a news site. Experts offer tips to help sniff out fact from fake. One of today's greatest challenges in a media bombarded culture.

This is a 10 question, self-scoring quiz on separating fact from opinion. Students read a sentence and select "fact" or "opinion" from the drop-down menu.