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Generation Skeptics offers teachers free lesson plans for teaching about misinformation, healthy skepticism, and fake news. Don’t Believe Everything You Believe.
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Our free educational resources include instructional slides, teacher notes, lesson plans, student response sheets, answer keys, and curriculum standards.
Some of our most popular lessons are featured here.
Bellringers for Better Thinking!
Don’t Have Time for a Full Lesson? Try these 98+ Amazing Short Videos and Questions as Classroom Bellringers!
Gr 6-12 How to Sell Pseudoscience!
This entertaining lesson will teach your students how to distinguish between science and pseudoscience. They will learn to identify the tricks used by hucksters trying to sell pseudoscientific products.
(Gr 8-12) What’s Your AI IQ?
What is AI? What are the benefits and drawbacks? Our aim is to introduce excellent online resources teaching young people to identify misinformation.- Download the Slide Presentation with Teacher Notes as a Powerpoint
- Download the Questions (for class discussions, small groups, or asynchronous learning)
- Download the Answer Key
- Download the PDF Version (no notes section)
- Download the The Lesson Plan
- Download the Teacher Evaluation (The first 20 teachers will receive a copy of “Dr. Yasmin’s book “What the Fact?!”)
- Download the Extra-Become a Source Detective
Fact or Fiction in the Age of AI
Students investigate whether images are real or AI-generated and answer critical questions to evaluate images before believing or sharing them.
Gr 3-12 Words Have Power Over Rice
Students will practice designing experiments after learning the importance of multiple trials and double-blind techniques. The lesson stresses the importance of trying to prove yourself wrong, not right.
To question—and recognize the possibility you may be wrong—is the foundation of the scientific method and baked into Generation Skeptics’ educational approach. Questionable social media ads, photoshopped and digitally altered images, misinformation, and climate denial are all real-life examples of what young people may encounter daily. But this work needs your help to flourish!
Making Science
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Generation Skeptics provides fun and knowledgeable workshops, conferences, and children’s events that we periodically run nationwide. Click below to find out where an event is happening near you!
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Be among the first students and teachers to start local GenSkeps Club Chapters at their schools or colleges.Genskeps Lessons Are Perfect for After-School or Summer Camp Programs.
GenSkeps’ Camp Guide for After-School and Summer Programs
This camp programming guide is an excellent resource for after-school and summer camps. It contains a preview of 56+ bellringer videos (lesson 1) and 12 complete lessons found on our webpage.Interested in presenting our resources to your fellow teachers?
Contact Bertha Vazquez at bvazquez@centerforinquiry.org