Pack contains: lesson plan, fake news article, worksheet, and activities
Pack focus: the dangers of ‘fake news’, how fake news harms the public, how to identify fake news.

Students learn about the history of fake news, why it is created, and its negative impacts on society. The pack looks at how students can identify fake news and protect themselves from falling for it.

Activities include looking at real world examples of fake news, students looking at new websites that come up in their search and gauge the accuracy of the information in the article, create a PSA (public service announcement) to help others identify and avoid fake news, and a student led quiz - in which they find outlandish news stories and create their own fake news to see who can guess the fake from true.