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Fact Checker 8 Infographics research task #52

Open tylerecouture opened 4 years ago

tylerecouture commented 4 years ago

https://hackerspace.sd72.bc.ca/quests/1527/

Find some misleading infographics and data to add a research questions and boost this quest to 10 XP, example:

Here are a few infographics, can you find what is wrong with them? Spend at least a few minutes on each trying to figure it out yourself before asking for help)

US Unemployment Rate under President Obama, Fox News (look at the last data point!)

https://www.statisticshowto.datasciencecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/unemployment-rate.jpg

tylerecouture commented 4 years ago

https://hackerspace.sd72.bc.ca/quests/1524/ Want to add this question and boost quest to 10 XP, but need to come up with some more sources:

Use Wikipedia as a lateral reading resource to determine whether you think these cites are credible sources of information.  Provide a brief description of your findings and an explanation of your decision:
    Food Babe

https://foodbabe.com/

tylerecouture commented 4 years ago

https://hackerspace.sd72.bc.ca/quests/1521/

Would be cool to have an additional (or bonus) challenge in this quest (+5XP), give the student's a meme or other news item and have them go through the three steps on it, as demonstrated in the lesson!