Fact Check Detective

This worksheet helps students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 strengthen critical reading, claim evaluation, and digital literacy skills by analyzing AI-generated statements for accuracy and bias. Students examine a series of statements and decide whether each represents a reliable fact or a misleading interpretation influenced by bias, assumption, or incomplete information.

Learning Goals

• Critical Evaluation of Claims (Grades 6-8) – Students assess the truthfulness of statements using reasoning and context clues.
• Detecting Bias and Assumptions – Learners identify hidden assumptions, exaggerations, or slanted language in AI-generated text.
• Information Literacy Skills – Students practice questioning sources and recognizing misleading patterns.
• Evidence-Based Justification – Students explain their decisions using clear reasoning and examples from the text.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators with realistic AI-style statements students may encounter.
• Low-Prep and Versatile – Suitable for independent work, discussion, or media-literacy lessons.
• Builds Skeptical Reading Habits – Encourages students to pause, question, and verify information.
• Supports Diverse Learners – Structured analysis prompts guide students through complex evaluation tasks.
• Cross-Curricular Alignment – Reinforces English Language Arts skills while supporting social studies and technology literacy.

This printable worksheet helps students become more discerning consumers of information by teaching them how to separate fact from bias in AI-generated content. Through analysis, justification, and reflection, learners build strong critical thinking, media-literacy, and digital-literacy skills. Ideal for classroom or homeschool use, this activity supports responsible evaluation of modern information sources and thoughtful engagement with AI-generated text.

This worksheet is part of our Role of Bias in AI collection.