Fact, Opinion, or Something Else?

• crime statistics.

• This KS3 resource bundle provides a comprehensive curriculum outline and detailed lesson materials focused on understanding why people share information and how opinions influence this process.

• It aligns with the 2024 National Curriculum for Computing, English, and Citizenship, emphasising media literacy, bias recognition, and critical evaluation of digital content.

• The bundle includes carefully selected crime statistics and news articles from *First News*, covering key crime trends such as rising theft and knife crime alongside falling violent crime rates.

• These real-world examples support developing pupils’ skills in interpreting data, recognising perspectives shaped by identity and values, and distinguishing between facts, opinions, predictions, and advertising claims.

• Ideal for teachers seeking age-appropriate, engaging content to enhance students’ media and information literacy, this resource supports critical thinking and cross-curricular learning in digital literacy, reading comprehension, and social awareness within KS3 education in England.

• England.

• To understand why people share information and how opinions influence this.

• Understand the difference between facts, opinions, and other types of content (e.g. predictions, advertising claims).

• Explore how people’s backgrounds, values or identities shape how they see things.

• I know that there is a difference between opinions and facts.

• I know that people see things differently depending on their background, values or identity.

• I know that there is a difference between opinions and facts.

• Domain 1 - Being Informed.