# Appeal to Authority Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "If you're questioning me, you are questioning science itself." No. Those are not the same thing. The Appeal to Authority works like this: instead of giving you evidence or a real reason to believe something, someone tells you that an important, famous, or credentialled person says it's true - and that should be enough. A doctor says so. An expert says so. A celebrity says so. The title does the work that the argument should be doing. "9 out of 10 dentists recommend our toothpaste for whiter teeth!" "Try this workout - LeBron James says it's why he wins!" "We need new speed limits - the health director says so!" The name gets dropped, the question gets closed, and nobody asks whether the authority actually knows what they're talking about - or who's paying them. Because the thing about fancy titles is that they can be bought. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to do the one thing the Appeal to Authority hopes they won't: ask why something is true, not just who says it is. Through an illustrated true story from history, a funny comic, and hands-on activities featuring Duchess, Bruno, and Gizmo, learners don't just memorise a definition. They understand the fallacy well enough to catch it in the wild. ⭐ Rated 5.0 on Etsy and TPT THE STORY INSIDE Every pack starts with a true story from history - not a paragraph in a textbook, but a fully illustrated, multi-page narrative. This pack features the tobacco industry's extraordinary con of the 1950s - and how "9 out of 10 doctors recommend Camels" nearly convinced an entire generation that smoking was good for you. In the 1950s, tobacco companies had a problem: scientists were starting to notice that cigarettes caused cancer. Their solution? Don't engage with the science. Just slap lab coats on doctors and pay them to say otherwise. Newspapers and magazines were flooded with images of doctors in white coats holding cigarettes like they were some kind of medical tool. The message was simple: the experts say smok… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/66f5cc68-06f9-451a-8232-926721b9537e Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au