Wenn–König hasst TikTok. Es ist wie Heroin für ablenkbare Teenager, was meinen Unterrichtsfluss durcheinander bringt, aber noch schlimmer, Sie glauben ALLES, was sie dort sehen. Und ich meine ALLES. Flache Erde? Muss wahr sein. 5G-Chips in Impfstoffen? Sachlich. Einen Esslöffel Zimt essen? Großartige Idee. The internet can be a blessing if you know how to be a skeptical consumer of information or a curse if you just blindly accept what you see. A lot of kids fall into the latter category. I can think of some adults who ought to complete this assignment. But I digress.

We have got to help them.

Teach your students not to believe every ridiculous thing they read on the internet by debunking popular conspiracy theories AND teach them how to write a four-paragraph research essay with one easy and useful digital unit!

I wrote a research paper unit about debunking conspiracy theories that will teach them to:

• Differentiate between reliable and unreliable sources of information online.
• Produce a four-paragraph informational/research essay with an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a reflective conclusion.

I’ve done the planning and prepping so you can focus on teaching the kids not to be a bunch of wackadoos who believe anything they see on the internet!

This essay-writing unit is highly structured and comes pre-chunked into seven separate lessons with seven separate documents. Students will tackle one paragraph or task at a time, then will combine the drafts from each document into a final copy. There is color-coding to help them, as well as extensive use of prompting organizers.

Hop onto TpT and check it out. There’s a free sample and everything!

Stichworte: sekundäre ELA, informational writing, Forschungsaufsatz, E2E, enraged2engaged, guided writing, writing template, Schreiborganisator, grafischer Organizer, structured literacy, chunked essay, conspiracy theories