Provided by: Skew the Script |Published on: June 5, 2023
Lesson Plans Grades 9-12, ap-college
Synopsis
This lesson plan is useful for teaching students about how data is presented visually, how it can be distorted, and some examples of where data distortion is prevalent.
This lesson is suggested for a flipped classroom model and comes with a video, worksheet, reflection questions, slide deck, textbook and AP connections, teacher's guide, and data set.
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.
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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.
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