# Circular Reasoning Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "It's safe because it works! And it works because it's safe!" That's not an explanation. That's the same claim dressed up twice and handed back to you. Circular reasoning is when someone offers a claim and then uses that exact same claim - just in different words - as the proof. No new information. No actual evidence. Just a loop that keeps bringing you back to where you started. "This game is fun because it's cool." "Vote for me because I'm the best leader for our city." "You can trust me because I am an honest person." It sounds like an argument. It looks like an argument. But pull it apart and there's nothing inside - just the same idea echoing back at itself. It's annoying when a friend does it. When governments do it, people die. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to recognise when someone is going in circles - and to demand the one thing circular reasoning never provides: actual evidence. 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 Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror - the period in 1793 when circular reasoning didn't just win arguments. It sent 40,000 people to their deaths. Robespierre and his fellow revolutionaries had dreamed of freedom, equality, and fraternity. But anyone who questioned their vision was branded a traitor. The reasoning? "They're traitors because they're guilty - and they're guilty because they're traitors." No evidence. Just deceptive logic running in a loop. Louis Saint-Just added his own circular fuel to the fire: "They're evil because they oppose us, and they oppose us because they're evil." With that, anyone could be labelled an enemy w… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6869c9cb-0748-4e6a-a775-e2455619cd3c Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au