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Curated OER

"It's Verifiable!"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the differences between fact and opinion. They define fact and opinion, evaluate their favorite fact or opinion on a website, and in small groups write sentences using facts and opinions about school and their favorite...
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Let Us Do Your Selling

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze several types of propaganda techniques and create a book cover using the techniques. In this propaganda techniques lesson, 6th graders analyze the propaganda techniques used in various ads. Students analyze the...
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Curated OER

Nutty About Peanut Butter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm list of lunchtime sandwiches, identify difference between fact and opinion, research facts about peanut butter online, complete Nutty About Peanut Butter worksheet, and create their own fact and opinion worksheets...
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Curated OER

Arthur Meets the President

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read, Arthur Meets the President, and review the story using sentence strips and complete a book review activity with a partner.  In this reading skills lesson plan, students work on fact and opinion and...
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Curated OER

What an Accomplishment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils identify and discuss the images on the back of the South Dakota quarter. They discuss the differences between facts and opinions, and research information about the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore.
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Curated OER

Forming an Opinion with Organizational Elements - Cats, Yesterday and Today

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this age of information overload, it is often difficult for young people to know what they think about a topic. The graphic organizer, video, and activities included with this resource show middle schoolers how to use proven facts to...
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Curated OER

Is That a Fact?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write examples of facts and opinions on the board. In groups, they develop their own definitions for facts and opinions and share with the class. In new groups, they complete a worksheet in which they place statements into the...
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Curated OER

Is That a Fact?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use physical activity to help them distinguish between facts and opinions. They are broken up into pairs and students give a fact or opinion (based on the call by the teacher) when the ball is bounced to them.
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Curated OER

Bias

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply techniques of distinguishing between fact and opinion. Students identify words associated with persuasion and argument. Students read and categorizer a variety of newspapers and articles. Students identfy bias in a...
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Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Mistake, Misrepresentation, and Fraud

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Fraud alert! Scholars conduct research about consumer fraud and create a presentation detailing the information they find. Additionally, they research and write a report about lawsuits that resulted in large settlements.
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Curated OER

Persuasive Writing: Fact or Opinion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion? Middle schoolers categorize statements as either facts or opinions before writing a persuasive essay to support a thesis statement they create. This is a great introduction to...
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Curated OER

Just the Facts, Jack

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to music and discuss their responses to different styles separating their comments into facts and opinions. They evaluate a worksheet of statements by classifying the statements into fact and opinion.
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Curated OER

Identifying Facts

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
  Young scholars evaluate what a fact is and what the characteristics of a fact are.  In this fact and opinion lesson, students read through chapters in their books and point out facts that they find that cannot be...
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Newseum

You Can’t Say That: In My Opinion

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
As a part of a study of the First Amendment, high schoolers research a current news story that seems to involve one of the freedoms granted by the First Amendment. Investigators decide whether they think the action presented in the story...
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Curated OER

Buying and Selling: Getting Cherries into a Pie

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Kids keep score as they take on the roles of buyers and sellers in an agribusiness introduction. They play the game for five rounds, each round is made different by having a new economic element added, a discussion follows. Everything...
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Advocates for Human Rights

Nativism and Myths about Immigrants

For Students 8th - Higher Ed Standards
Where do anti-immigrants myths come from, and how can they be refuted? Learners critically analyze media reports and how to identify reliable sources. After studying a timeline that details the history of US nativism, groups research the...
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Study Skills- Fact and Opinion

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils engage in a variety of activities in order to achieve the objectives of a layered curriculum unit. They take notes on the differences between fact and opinion. Students also use a newspaper in order to recognize opinionated words...
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Curated OER

Animal Fact or Fiction?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Read and discuss the article "Welcome to Cicadaville (Enter at Your Own Risk)" to gain a better understanding around the confusion regarding cicadas and locust swarms. In groups your young analysts research statements about animals to...
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Curated OER

Lesson 4: Fact and Opinion - Rosa Parks: My Story

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine implicit and explicit opinions in a text about Rosa Parks. In this explicit and implicit opinions lesson, 6th graders participate in direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice while reading an...
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That Is Not My Opinion!

For Teachers 12th
Being an informed citizen requires distinguishing fact from opinion and understanding persuasion methods. Secondary learners evaluate newspaper editorials. They read opinion pieces, identify the writer's purpose and position on an issue,...
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Author's Opinion

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete a worksheet.  In this author's opinion activity, students learn how to determine an author's opinion when it is not explicitly stated in the text.  Students answer fact and opinion questions and use them to...
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Teaching Tolerance

Where We Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Academics learn strategies to share their opinions and agree or disagree with others in a respectful manner. The resource provides scenarios to help individuals form opinions and share them with...
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Newseum

Propaganda Through History: Analyzing Historical Sources

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Working in teams, pairs, or individually, scholars select one resource from a gallery of historical sources and consider which examples might be considered propaganda, the techniques used to persuade audiences, and evaluate how the...
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Serendip

Golden Rice – Evaluating the Pros and Cons

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
More than half the world's population eats rice as a daily staple ... imagine if that rice could prevent illness. Scientists genetically engineered rice to include vitamin A for just that purpose. However, room for debate still exists....

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