This is a trick I learned in my college education courses.  Another one of my classmates thought it would be a cool idea to fake a memo on school letterhead and use it to convince students that an unpopular policy was taking effect.

He told them that they were going to be charged 10 cents per page of copy paper… and that included any tests, quizzes, and assignments they did.  The point was to get them to witness in a personal way the onerous nature of taxes in colonial times.

I took the technique a step further and realized that you can create you own newspaper articles.  I often use New York Times articles in class, so if an article looks identical to a real one… the students are none the wiser.  Check out this guide on Associated Content to learn how to write your own fake news article and make it look real.

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