By viewing How to Spot a Misleading Graph students can discover 3 methods in which graphs can be misleading. Those ways are misshaping the scale of the chart, controling the X or Y axis of a chart, and cherry-picking or not supplying context for information in a graph. The entire lesson can be found here and the video is ingrained below.

Tools like
Canva and even excellent ol PowerPoint make it extremely easy to rapidly develop excellent looking graphs. But as Randy Krum explains in his book,
Cool Infographics, a graphic that looks good isnt necessarily a great graphic. Numerous times a graphic is made to look great in order to sidetrack from the reality of the details provided within it. Thats a point that is made in a couple of ways in a TED-Ed lesson titled
How to Spot a Misleading Graph..

Applications for Education.
This video could make a great addition to your list of resources for mentor trainees how to be smart media consumers. After seeing the video I d have students do 2 things. First, I d have them browse a few newspapers or journals (online or physical) to try to discover some graphs that utilize among the deceptive techniques taught in the TED-Ed lesson. Second, I d offer students with some datasets to attempt their hands at developing accurate charts along with slightly misleading charts.