Unit 3 project: The fact-check desk

Every lesson this unit taught one kind of check. Real life doesn't send them one at a time. Today four items arrive together, and your group is the fact-check desk the class group relies on.

Work in groups of 3–4. One period. Everything in fact-desk.ods.

1. A notice — written with AI, about a real school event.
2. An image — forwarded, with no name or date on it.
3. A voice note, written out — someone well known, announcing something urgent.
4. A paragraph about your district — written by an AI tool, full of confident facts.

For each item, one row: What it claims · How we checked · Source · Verdict (true / false / can't tell) · Could it have been made?

• For the notice and the paragraph: split them into claims and check each one against sources/.
• For the image: provenance, cross-check, context. Do the season and the details agree?
• For the voice note: who sent it first? what does the official source say?

Before you check each item, predict your verdict in brackets. Count at the end how often you changed your mind.

For every item that's false or can't be told, write one calm line you'd send back to the class group — how to check it, not a lecture, and nothing that shames the person who forwarded it.

Each person writes one rule for their own family about forwards or voice notes — a code word, a number to call back, a site to check — and why it works better than "I'd recognise it". Sign with your roll number. This part is marked for you alone.

Each group reads out one correction. The class picks the calmest and most useful.