# False Equivalence Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "Saying mean words is just as bad as hitting someone - both hurt their feelings!" Do they, though? In the same way? Two things share one trait, so someone declares them equal. They're both bad - same thing! They both cause harm - same thing! They both make you nervous - same thing! Except they're not the same thing. Not even close. Slapping a label of equivalence on two genuinely different situations doesn't make them equivalent. It just muddies the water - and sometimes stops people from getting the help they actually need. That's the False Equivalence. Your learners encounter it everywhere - in family arguments, in advertising, in politics, online. "Eating sugar is just like smoking because both are bad habits!" "Drinking energy drinks is like taking vitamins - both give you a boost!" "Peaceful protests are the same as rioting because both disrupt traffic!" Two things superficially alike get treated as identical, and real differences get buried. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to look past surface similarities and examine what's actually being compared. Through an illustrated true story, a funny comic, and hands-on activities featuring Duchess (the cat) and Bruno (the dog), 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 Winston Churchill - the man whose voice helped hold off Nazi Germany - and why the fear that nearly broke him was not a phobia. Young Churchill had a lisp. He dreaded speaking in public. At one debate, he froze completely - just stood there in silence, humiliated, and had to sit down. His hands would tremble before speeches. He called his bouts of sadness the "Black Dog" - a personal shadow that followed him in dark times. Modern commentators love to retroactively diagno… [truncated] ## Learning Needs personalDevelopment, growthMindset, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6897fd22-58e0-4bd6-a1fe-e739ea77f6cc Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au