# False Cause Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "Ever since I started taking this new multivitamin, I haven't gotten sick all year." That's not proof. That's a coincidence wearing a lab coat. Two things happen one after the other - or even at the same time - and the brain immediately wants to connect them. A happens, then B happens, so A must have caused B. It feels like logic. It feels like pattern recognition. It isn't. It's just two things happening near each other, and a mind that's a little too eager to find meaning. That's the False Cause Fallacy. Your learners do it constantly - and so does everyone around them. "Since the city built a new police station, crime reports have dropped." "I started wearing this FitPulse band and I've lost 20 pounds!" "I put free Wi-Fi hotspots in neighbourhoods, and now online school grades are up." The link feels obvious. The trouble is, obvious isn't the same as true. Correlation is not causation - and until someone does the actual work to find out what's really going on, nobody knows what caused what. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to stop and ask the question that should always come next: how do we actually know one thing caused the other? 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 Dr. James Craik and the medical establishment's 2,000-year love affair with bloodletting - a false cause fallacy that didn't just mislead people. It killed them. In the 1700s, Dr. Craik was one of the most respected physicians in America. His treatment of choice for almost any illness: slice the patient open and drain their blood. Got a fever? Too much bad blood. Infection? Too much bad blood. The s… [truncated] ## Learning Needs personalDevelopment, growthMindset, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/689802cb-5f84-48d5-b465-e9adb7d82829 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au