Here's a must-see video. The topic—circular reporting, or the intentional spreading and leaking of false information. The big idea here is to teach viewers to recognize and avoid contributing to the cycle.

What's the story behind the headlines for scientifically researched products? Viewers of a short video identify the fallacies in headlines designed to lure the unwary.

“Authentic narrative is the glue that connects people.” So says the narrator of this short video who models for young journalists how to craft the questions and identify the sources that will yield the information needed to create a...

Believe it or not, sometimes statistics can be misleading. Introduce young statisticians to Simpson's paradox, where the same set of data can show opposite trends, depending on lurking variables.

The more detailed a story is, the more you should believe it—right? This fallacy, known as the conjunction fallacy, takes advantage of your brain's tendency to conflate plausibility and probability. A short and engaging video explains...

In this video, Andrew Hossack at the Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo, NY, involves his students in using close reading strategies of a complex text to determine the main idea and important details. In this lesson, his complex text is...