# Hasty Generalisation Activity Pack | Critical Thinking Activities **Price:** $12.95 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) "Nope. This seaweed stuff is nasty." "Bro, that's only ONE kind of sushi!" One bad bite. One snap judgment. All sushi condemned forever. That's a hasty generalisation - drawing a conclusion about a whole group, place, or thing based on only a few examples. It's jumping to conclusions before you have enough evidence, and writing off everything based on a tiny sample. One rude person from a town means everyone there must be rude. Two plane crashes in a month means flying is extremely dangerous. A few bad reviews means all your followers are haters and trolls. It sounds almost harmless when it's about sushi. But that same pattern of thinking - taking one trait and using it to define an entire group - has caused some of the worst tragedies in human history. Your learners do this constantly, and so does everyone around them. "My friend cancelled twice - she really doesn't care about me." "I got some complaints - people are too picky these days." "No one read my article - the public doesn't want the truth." It's one of the most common thinking errors there is, and most people never even notice they're doing it. This 20-page printed activity pack teaches kids to pause before they generalise - to ask how much evidence they actually have before declaring the whole group guilty. ⭐ 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 Yevdokiia Golovin - a farmer, a mother of three, and one of 5 million people destroyed by one of the most catastrophic hasty generalisations in history. Russia, 1917. The country is in chaos. World War I has drained it dry, most Russians are starving, and the Bolsheviks - led by Vladimir Lenin - have just seized power, kicked out the Tsar, and promised a new, equal society. To build it, they believed they had to erase the old one. That meant dividing the entire country into two categories: US (the w… [truncated] ## Learning Needs personalDevelopment, growthMindset, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/6897e5c3-52b4-428d-a7df-9ef17918c77b Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au