# Appeal to Tradition Logical Fallacy Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "We can't go changing the rules now. It's always been done this way." But has it always been done right? Someone defends a practice, a rule, or a belief - not because it works, not because there's evidence for it, but simply because it's old. It's tradition. It's how things have always been done. The argument isn't about whether the idea is good. It's that the idea is familiar. And familiarity gets mistaken for proof. That's the Appeal to Tradition. Your learners see it constantly - at home, at school, in politics, in advertising. "We must eat turkey on Thanksgiving because that's what families have always done." "Moms have fed this brand to kids for 50 years - it's the traditional breakfast!" "We should keep printed newspapers because people have read them that way for hundreds of years." Old doesn't mean right. And sometimes, insisting on the old way costs lives. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to question whether something is actually good - or just familiar. Through an illustrated true story, 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 Ignaz Semmelweis - the doctor who discovered handwashing, and the medical establishment that refused to listen. In 1847, Semmelweis noticed something horrifying: women giving birth in his clinic were dying at a rate of 30%. Meanwhile, a nearby clinic run by midwives had a death rate of less than 2%. The conditions in both clinics were identical. So what was different? The doctors at Semmelweis's clinic were dissecting dead bodies - and then walking straight into the delivery room without washing their hands. Just a quick wipe on a cloth and off they went. Semmelweis realised the conn… [truncated] ## Learning Needs personalDevelopment, growthMindset, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6899c03d-9ba6-4c5b-b41d-1639e52873a1 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au