Lesson Plans for Educators
Lessons to boost mental immunity, designed for the classroom
Our lesson plans aim to empower educators with comprehensive playbooks for teaching critical thinking skills in fun and engaging ways, helping students develop resistance to manipulative information in today’s complex media landscape.
Health Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience pretends to be scientific but doesn’t adhere to science’s methodology. This lesson plan covers the characteristics of health pseudoscience and the techniques used to sell it with a fun activity: creating a fake ad.
Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories have been referred to “epistemic black holes” because once you’re into them, they’re hard to get out. This lesson plan teaches you how to prevent your students for falling for these traps.
Horoscopes & Personality Tests
This lesson plan covers an activity to fool students with a bunk personality assessment to demonstrate to them techniques that are commonly used to mislead, with a “gotcha!” twist.
Logical Fallacies
Logical fallacies are pervasive in pseudoscience, disinformation, and bad faith arguments. Teaching students to master the art of recognizing logical fallacies can supercharge their critical thinking skills.
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For more tools for the classroom, check out our What Works to Build Mental Immunity page, designed for educators.
Confused about some of the terminology we use? Check out our glossary page.
These lesson plans are part of the Mental Immunity to Manipulative Information Campaign (MIMIC).
Check out our What Works to Build Mental Immunity page, also part of MIMIC.
These lessons are the work of our the brilliant Melanie Trecek-King.
Melanie is the Education Director for the Mental Immunity Project and the founder of ThinkingIsPower.com.
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