Fair or Unfair (Understanding Bias in Surveys)

Copy the teacher cards and cut them out. You can read them aloud during the activity, or put them under a document camera.

Copy the “fair” and “unfair” pages on two different colors of paper. This way you can easily monitor the students’ answers.

Have students hold up the card “Fair” or “Unfair” to show their answer to the card you read.

If the class is split with their answers, ask why students selected the answer they chose. If the answer is “unfair” talk about why it is “unfair”.

Ask the students what could be changed in order to make the answer “fair”