Pupils scared by asteroid spoof -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)

Pupils were left in tears after a teacher told them that an asteroid was about to hit Earth and kill them all.
The spoof announcement was designed to teach 14-year-olds the importance of seizing the day but backfired after they became visibly frightened. —Pupils scared by asteroid spoof (BBC)

I think I’ll quietly scratch this idea off my list of classroom activities for next week.

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