Factual Information and Subjective Content

What is a fact?

• Based on a fictional story.

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

• A constructed response on a specific topic.

• all of the above

Which sentence is an opinion?

• A ‘coronavirus’ is actually quite common and you’ve likely been infected with one before.

• You can protect yourself from Covid-19 by injecting, swallowing, bathing in, or rubbing onto your body bleach, disinfectants, or rubbing alcohols.

• The virus spreads the way other colds and the flu are spread, coughing, sneezing, and touching.

• It was apparently a strain that only affected animals but made the animal to human jump.

What is an opinion?

• This is based on someone's points of view about something and cannot be tested because it's always changing.

• A certain form of questions about things.

• The reaction when someone feels when they're really excited.

• None of the above.

Which sentence is a fact?

• The new coronavirus was deliberately created or released by people.

• Ordering or buying products shipped from overseas will make a person sick.

• You can get a face mask exemption card so you don’t need to wear a mask.

• A vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is available.

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

• Encyclopedia

• Fictional stories

• Diary

• all of the above

Is this sentence a fact or opinion?

No evidence that antibody tests can show coronavirus immunity-WHO

• Fact

• Opinion

Is this sentence a fact or opinion?

"COVID-19 only affects old people, meaning young people don’t have to worry."

• Fact

• Opinion

This sentence is an opinion.

Vaccine-preventable diseases are just part of childhood. It is better to have the disease than become immune through vaccines.

• True

• False

What makes this sentence a fact?

Immunization through vaccination is the safest way to protect against disease.

• The fact that it is always not best to get vaccinated when you think the risk of infection is low.

• This is not a fact because combined vaccines are not safe and beneficial.

• This is an opinion if we stop vaccination, deadly diseases will return.

• The fact that vaccines produce an immune response similar to that produced by the natural infection.

Spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid makes up the largest portion of the U.S. federal budget.

• Factual Statement

• Subjective content