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Class Kit: Not Falling for It

A kit for teachers of pupils aged 11 to 15 (lower secondary). It goes with the seven free lessons of “Not Falling for It”: scams in games, clickbait, hidden ads by influencers, mistakes and inventions by artificial intelligence, edited screenshots and deepfakes, the recommendation bubble and numbers that mislead. For each lesson you get a “ready-made 45-minute lesson”: objectives, materials, a minute-by-minute plan in which you show the lesson in classroom mode, a one-page A4 worksheet with an answer key, adaptations for weaker and faster pupils, two homework options and a short procedure for when a pupil confides in you. Curriculum links are given for the EU's DigComp 3.0 framework and UNESCO's media and information literacy curriculum, checked in October 2026, so you can match them to your own curriculum. Pupils need no account or email address, and we store nothing about children. The lessons, classroom mode and the homework link are free for everyone – sales of class kits and other courses pay for keeping the children's lessons free and ad-free. With the kit you can also print “Not Falling for It” diplomas for the whole class at once. The kit is not an accredited professional development programme; it is practical teaching material for your classroom. Updated: October 2026.

8 lessonsabout 78 minutesquizzes and interactive gamesPaid · €15.90

€15.90

one-off payment, no subscription

  • Free introductory lesson: how to use the kit, classroom mode, homework, diplomas and an overview of curriculum links
  • 7 ready-made 45-minute lessons – one for each lesson of Not Falling for It
  • For every lesson: objectives, materials, a minute-by-minute plan and adaptations for weaker and faster pupils
  • 7 printable A4 worksheets, each with an answer key for the teacher
  • Curriculum links to the EU's DigComp 3.0 framework and UNESCO's media and information literacy curriculum, checked in October 2026
  • Two homework options for every lesson and what to do if a pupil confides in you
  • Printing of “Not Falling for It” diplomas for the whole class (names are not stored anywhere)
  • Access without registering – via a code sent by email

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The children's missions for this kit

This kit goes with the missions Not Falling for It (Ages 11–15). The missions are free for children and need no account: show them in class and set them as homework.

Course contents

  1. 1How to use the kitWhat's in the kit, how to show a lesson in class, set it as homework and print diplomas, how the lessons protect children's privacy – and an overview of curriculum links.Free sample lesson
  2. 🔒Lesson 1: Scams in gamesFake giveaways, fake support and stolen accounts: pupils find the tricks in a game chat, work out who really owns a web address and practise what to do if they lose an account.
  3. 🔒Lesson 2: ClickbaitWhy headlines shout and promise secrets: pupils learn the signs of clickbait, rewrite headlines so that they inform, and practise three steps before sharing.
  4. 🔒Lesson 3: Influencers and hidden adsPupils tell an honestly labelled ad from a hidden one, recognise a paid collaboration, a free product and commission from a discount code as a creator's reward, and rewrite a description so t
  5. 🔒Lesson 4: AI can get it wrong – and make things upPupils find out why a chatbot sounds sure even when it's making things up, check the numbers and source in an AI answer against another source, and agree on class rules for using AI in assign
  6. 🔒Lesson 5: Edited screenshots and deepfakesPupils see why a screenshot isn't proof, practise checking against the original and, with a video of a famous face, ask “who, where else, what does it want from me”. The lesson includes a saf
  7. 🔒Lesson 6: The recommendation bubblePupils find out how the app chooses videos and why what makes people angry spreads most, and compare a class poll with what a feed would show them – using the non-political example of school
  8. 🔒Lesson 7: “9 out of 10” – numbers that misleadMaths in ads and in the news: pupils work out percentages from their base, spot a bar chart whose axis doesn't start at zero, and tell a correlation from a cause.

About this course

Author
Bc. Pavel Cinkeis, MBA, MPA (with thematic specialists)
Updated