3.3: Facts and opinions
This activity is intended to assist students to distinguish between facts and opinions.
Tasks
- Draw the following table on the board
| People |
Fact |
Opinion |
| mothers |
Mothers are women. |
Mothers are the best cooks |
| fathers |
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| boys |
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| girls |
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| women |
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| babies |
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| teachers |
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- Discuss
the first example, clarifying the differences between facts and
opinions. Ask students to provide facts and opinions to complete the
table. Continue to clarify the distinctions between facts and opinions.
- Distribute
magazines and art paper to students. In pairs, ask students to create
two headings on the art paper, “Fact” and “Opinion”. Ask students to
then select and cut out pictures from magazines. Students should
jointly decide whether their pictures illustrate fact or opinion and
paste them under the appropriate heading on the art paper.
- Ask students to share some of their facts and opinions with the class.
- This activity is intended to assist students to distinguish between facts and opinions.
- Reinforce
the notions of facts and opinions by asking students to identify facts
and opinions in stories, discussions, news stories etc.
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- Art paper
- Magazines
- Scissors
- Coloured pencils or textas
- Paste
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