From Massachusetts Institute of Technology's BLOSSOMS series comes this lesson designed to help high school-level students distinguish between causation and correlation. This hour-long lesson is led by Kamilya Tazhibayeva, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Economics at MIT. At the beginning of this lesson, Tazhibayeva presents students with a series of deceptive newspaper headlines, including one that claims that credit cards lead to weight gain. Next, Tazhibayeva introduces a series of six activities designed to help students understand the concepts of correlation and causation and to think critically about these concepts. Throughout this video, students are introduced to related concepts including direct causation, indirect causation, spurious correlation, and omitted values. As with all MIT BLOSSOMS lessons, this lesson includes a video that instructors may choose to play during this lesson. The lesson is also accompanied by a number of related outside resources, including a Khan Academy video and a paper from Duke University about the statistics behind causation.