# Appeal to Ignorance Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "You can't prove this will kill me - so I'll be fine." That's not a safety check. That's a gap in the evidence being mistaken for a green light. The Appeal to Ignorance works like this: nobody has proven it's wrong, therefore it must be right. Nobody has proven it's harmful, therefore it must be safe. The absence of proof gets dressed up as proof of absence - and suddenly, not knowing something becomes a reason to act as if you do. The scary part is how reasonable it sounds. "Until someone can show me evidence that crystals don't have healing properties, I'm going to keep recommending them." "My opponent cannot prove their tax plan won't hurt middle-class families, so we must reject it." "No proof it's bad - spray away!" That's the Appeal to Ignorance. And your learners encounter it everywhere - in advertising, on social media, in politics, and from people who are absolutely certain they know something, when really all they know is that nobody has checked yet. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to ask the question that dismantles this fallacy every time: what do we actually know - not just what hasn't been disproven? Through an illustrated true story from history, a funny comic, and hands-on activities featuring Duchess and Bruno, 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 story of DDT - a powerful pesticide that swept through 1940s America on the back of one of the most consequential Appeals to Ignorance in history. DDT (short for Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was marketed as a miracle. Companies promoted it everywhere: magazine ads showed farmers dousing fields, mothers zapping flies, and children playing cheerfully near the chemical clouds it produced. The message from officials and industr… [truncated] ## Learning Needs personalDevelopment, growthMindset, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6897dcd0-3641-46fd-8fca-c911479e09cf Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au