👩‍🏫 Teacher Overview

• Grade Band: High School (9–12)
• Objective: Students practice spotting AI-generated misinformation and develop strategies for fact-checking.
• Time Needed: 40 minutes
• ISTE Standards:
• Knowledge Constructor: Evaluate accuracy and credibility of information.
• Digital Citizen: Develop safe and responsible habits online.
• Key Vocabulary: misinformation, bias, fact-checking, credibility, source.

📦 Materials

• Handout: Headlines & Articles Set (a mix of AI-written and real)
• Student worksheet (provided below)
• Whiteboard or projector for whole-class voting
• (Optional) Access to fact-checking sites (Snopes, PolitiFact, Google Fact Check Explorer)

📝 Teacher Steps

1. Intro (5 min)

• Warm-up question: “Have you ever seen something online you later found out wasn’t true?”
• Explain: AI tools can generate convincing but fake text, making it harder to tell what’s real.

2. Challenge Round (10 min)

• Distribute 10 headlines/articles (half real, half AI-generated).
• Students work individually or in pairs: mark Real 🟢 or AI 🔴 for each.

3. Analysis (10 min)

• Students highlight or circle clues that influenced their choice:
• Strange phrasing
• Overly dramatic claims
• No clear source or author
• “Too perfect” or generic details

4. Reveal & Discuss (10 min)

• Teacher reveals which headlines were AI vs. real.
• Discuss surprises: Which fooled the most students? Why?

5. Extension (5 min)

• Check one headline on a fact-checking site.
• Show how to cross-verify information.

🧒 Student Worksheet: Truth or AI?

Name: _____________________

Part 1 – Guess the Source

..continue as needed

Part 2 – Reflection

1. Which headline fooled me the most? __________________________
2. What made it hard to tell? _________________________________
3. What strategies could I use to fact-check in real life?
4. Why is it important to double-check information online?

✂️ Example Headlines for Teacher Use

(Teachers can swap in local/current examples)

• AI-generated (examples):
• “Scientists discover pizza toppings that extend human lifespan by 20 years.”
• “Local school installs robot teachers to replace substitute staff.”
• “NASA confirms new planet identical to Earth but twice the size.”
• Real (examples):
• “NASA announces discovery of 24 ‘superhabitable’ planets.”
• “Local district faces shortage of substitute teachers this year.”
• “Study finds that Mediterranean diet linked to longer lifespan.”