Misleading with Data

Positives

• This lesson plan uses relevant, real-life examples in order to make important points.
• This lesson plan has a good balance of teacher-centered and student-centered learning.
  

Additional Prerequisites

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• The slides used in the video can be found in the slide deck.

Differentiation

• This lesson plan could supplement a social studies classroom discussion about misinformation that uses misleading charts.
• This lesson plan could enhance a broader classroom discussion on propaganda, misinformation, and tactics used to distort facts.
  
• For the open-ended questions in this lesson plan, it may be wise to go over them as a class in order to analyze comprehension and address misconceptions. 
• Student data from the reflection questions can be used for targeted reteaching of key concepts.