Free lesson: Foreign Interference and Disinformation (Grade 10 Civics)

Try a complete lesson free: students learn the difference between open influence and foreign interference, study the methods and the defences, and check a fake voting post step by step.

This is a complete lesson from CHV2O Unit 2, Democratic Values in Action, free to download and use. It's exactly what you get in the paid units, so you can see the quality before you buy.

Students sort scenarios into open influence and interference, learn five methods of foreign interference and the institutions that defend Canada's democracy, learn about Canada's Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference (2023–2025), watch the teacher check a fake voting post and analyse an invented case of an interference campaign.

What you get

A teacher lesson plan with curriculum expectations, learning goals, success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation and an answer guide
A 16-slide deck with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend
Student handouts (two pages)
Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs

Like it? The full Democratic Values in Action unit has 5 lessons, and the complete CHV2O course covers the whole half credit.

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