Understanding Misinformation and Disinformation

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• ethical understanding
• problem solving
• reflection

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5, English

Students learn to: 

• understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources (AC9E5LA02).

Year 6, English

Students learn to: 

• understand the uses of objective and subjective language and identify bias (AC9E6LA02).

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts. 

Relevant parts of Year 6 English achievement standards: For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop, explain and elaborate on ideas from topics or texts. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: 

A student

• communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness by interacting and presenting and by analysing and evaluating for understanding (EN3-OLC-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - explicit teaching of the Visual Explainer and scaffolding required for students.

• Clean energy statements activity sheet
• Fact-checking finder activity sheet
• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• 5 large pieces of paper
• pencils
• sticky notes 
• The FLICC model Visual Explainer

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