Real Fact or Fake AI?

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 develop strong information-evaluation skills by comparing real facts with AI-fabricated claims. Through careful reading, analysis, and short written explanations, students practice critical thinking, evidence-based reasoning, media literacy, fact-checking awareness, and digital skepticism while learning how artificial intelligence can present false information with confidence and polish.

Targeted Skills

• Evaluating Informational Claims (Grades 5-7) – Students determine which statement in each pair is factual and which is fabricated.
• Recognizing Red Flags – Learners identify exaggerated numbers, implausible details, clichés, and logical contradictions.
• Evidence-Based Reasoning – Students explain their choices using prior knowledge and textual clues.
• AI Error Awareness – The activity highlights common ways AI-generated text can sound convincing but be inaccurate.

Instructional Support

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with ELA, social studies, and digital literacy standards.
• Simple, High-Engagement Format – Paired statements encourage comparison and close reading without overwhelming students.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for whole-class discussion, independent practice, homework, or media-literacy units.
• Supports Diverse Learners – Short explanations and structured prompts help scaffold reasoning skills.

This printable worksheet builds critical evaluation, media literacy, fact-versus-fiction analysis, and written justification skills through engaging, real-world examples. By learning to question polished but suspicious claims, students become more thoughtful readers and more responsible users of technology. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource encourages healthy skepticism, careful reasoning, and smarter decision-making when encountering AI-influenced information.

This worksheet is part of our Spotting AI Worksheets collection.