Fact vs. Opinion

What is a fact?

• A fictional story.
• A true statement about something that can be tested and proven to be true. 
• A constructed response on a specific topic. 
• icecream

What is an opinion? 

• What someone thinks personally about something and cannot be tested because it's always changing. 
• A certain form of question.
• How someone feels when they're really excited.
• adrenaline 

Which sentence is an opinion?

• Joshua thinks lasagna is delicious.
• Drawing is her favorite thing to do. 
• Trump is not the best president we could have. 
• In the year of 2020 this class will graduate high school. 

Which sentence is a fact? 

• Teenagers are emotional and irresponsible creatures. 
• Music is the most important thing in the world. 
• Riddles are fun!
• There are 12 months in one year. 

Which one of these would most likely be filled with facts? 

• Science book
• fictional story book
• diary 

Is this sentence a fact or opinion? 
 " Barack Obama was first elected president of the United States on November 4th 2008." 

• Opinion 
• Fact 

Is this sentence a fact or opinion?
" Chris thinks he is in love with Anna" 

• Opinion 
• Fact

What part of this sentence makes it an opinion?
" America is the greatest country in the world."

• Country
• America 
• greatest country in the world.
• America is 

This is an opinion.
" They say they are in love." 

• True 
• False

What makes this sentence a fact? 
" I think I am a humble person."

• The fact that you "think" you are a humble person is true. It is a fact that you think that and it can be proven that you do.
• This is not a fact. If everyone doesn't think your humble then you cannot think you are.