Facts vs Opinion

Is the following statement a fact or an opinion?

When it's below 32 degrees Fahrenheit outside, sometimes it snows.

• Fact

• Opinion

What is an "opinion"?

• a piece of information that may be true for you and not for me

• a piece of information that can be proven true, regardless of how you feel about it

• a piece of information that can be proven to be false

• a peace of information

Which of the following is a fact?

• The president is a doofus

• Roses are pretty

• Humans grow hair

• Chris Hemsworth is gorgeous

Which of the following is an opinion?

• The answer to an addition problem

• The melting point of ice

• The shape of the earth

• Someone's favorite color

Choose the answer that does NOT apply to opinions?

• People can change them a lot

• They can be emotional

• They can be supported or strengthened by facts

• People always research before they form them

Identify the opinion from the following statements.

• Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius.

• Chocolate tastes better than vanilla.

• The Earth revolves around the Sun.

• A year has 12 months.

Ice cream must be kept in the freezer.

• Fact

• Opinion

Summer is the best season.

• Fact

• Opinion

Reading is an important skill to learn.

• Opinion

• Fact

We live in Colorado.

• Fact

• Opinion