Moving the Goalpost Question Pack - Free Download

For 70 years, the Soviet Union promised its people that a perfect society was almost here. Whenever it didn't arrive, the promise just moved further away.

First it would come after the revolution. Then after the war. Then after the next Five Year Plan. Then the next one. The goalposts kept shifting - and an entire generation spent their lives chasing a destination that was always just out of reach.

That's Moving the Goalpost: shifting the target every time it's met, so winning becomes impossible. Your kids know this one in their bones. At school. At home. In every "okay, but can you do 20?" they'll ever be handed. This free Question Pack teaches them to catch it.

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the Five Year Plan story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how a coal target that kept climbing - 35 million tonnes, then 70, then 152 - worked a nation to breaking point while the promised reward never came
• An answer sheet, so you can run it at the dinner table or in a classroom with zero prep

The deal, stated plainly

We teach people to spot manipulation, so it would be a bit rich to hide ours. This pack is free because it's the best advertisement we have. You hand over your email, we send the download, and every so often we'll email you about new comics, book and our card game. Unsubscribe the moment we get boring. 

One email. Check your spam folder - our goodies have a talent for landing there. 

What the free pack doesn't include

The fully illustrated experience of Soviet miners under Stalin's Soviet Union. The Duchess & Bruno comic. The Spot-the-Fallacy hunt through real ads and headlines. The Code Breaker, the Draw Your Own Comic page, and the hidden Gizmo kids go feral trying to find.

All of that lives in the Moving the Goalpost Activity Pack - a 20-page printed booklet, rated 5.0 by teachers and parents on Etsy and TPT. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids absolutely adore the characters and story! It reminds us of horrible histories. I haven't found anything like this pack before." - Sandra

It's one of 24. Every pack takes one fallacy, one historical disaster and one comic - and turns them into a kid who is very hard to fool.

Want the complete experience? The Moving the Goalpost Activity Pack includes the full comic, guided activities, and everything your kids need to spot this fallacy in the wild.