Age, Stage and Prior Learning: Designed for S1–S3 at Developing level and strongest as the final challenge in this series. It can stand alone, but prior challenges give richer test cases.
Before You Start: Prepare two or three safe, public example messages if learners cannot easily select suitable material. Avoid requiring pupils to use divisive political or extremist content.
How to Open This: Ask: “When are you least likely to fact-check something — when you hate it, or when it tells you exactly what you already want to believe?”
Scheduling: Steps 1–2 build the protocol, Steps 3–4 stress-test and strengthen it, Step 5 produces the capstone. Allow 60–90 minutes.
If a Pupil Gets Stuck: Provide the four moves directly: Pause, Source, Evidence, Cross-check. Give the learner one simple advert and one public-information claim to test.
For Fast Finishers: Ask learners to reduce their full protocol to a ten-second version and then explain what accuracy they sacrifice by making the process faster.
Marking Guidance: Look for a genuinely repeatable protocol, evidence of testing on two different message types, at least one revision after testing, explicit confirmation-bias protection and a practical quick-use version.
