Activity
College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes introducing bias and demonstrating how to identify slight, moderate, and strong bias in a text. Notes can be both read and listened to.
Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Avoiding Gender Bias in Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay that focuses on how to shift writing from biased language to non-gender specific writing. Five examples are given from various publications to show how to become unbiased in writing.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students explore the extent to which society (and they themselves) may discriminate based on factors they're not even aware of, implicit biases. Why haven't laws been enough to eliminate discrimination? After...
Unit Plan
iCivics

I Civics: News Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use this library of mini-lessons to teach students to recognize high-standards journalism so they can make informed judgments about the information coming at them and to help them identify and deal with misinformation, bias, opinion, and...
Article
Other

All Psych: Chapter 8: Section 2: Our View of Self and Others

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at attribution theory, and error and bias in interpreting the behavior of others. Goes on to list and describe factors that influence attraction to others.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender Fair Pronouns

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to avoid gender stereotyping while using pronouns. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment...
Article
Other

Artificial Intelligence & Facial Recognition: Regulations & Privacy Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology promises to automate and reshape business, commerce, and consumer activities worldwide. But AI also triggers concerns about privacy, potential racial bias, security, and plenty more. As a result,...
Interactive
Other

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: The Debt Fixer

For Students 9th - 10th
Although it's a game simulation here, in real life Congress and U.S. citizens must make hard decisions to stabilize the economy. Authors may be biased toward a certain political party, but nevertheless, the exercise in making tough...
Website
Other

The Anabaptists

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hall of Church History describes the Anabaptists and their belifs. Watch out for religious bias in this site. Includes links to other sites relating to Anabaptists.
Article
CNN

Cnn: All Politics: Brief History of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses mainly on facts and is a little less biased than other reports on the 1968 Democratic Convention and riots in Chicago. Discusses some of the causes and the aftermath of the event.
Article
United Nations

Unesco: Artificial Intelligence: Examples of Ethical Dilemmas

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses ethical issues with the use of artificial intelligence, including gender bias, autonomous vehicles, art created by AI, and applications in a court of law.
Website
Indiana University

Iu: Literature as Lessons on the Diversity of Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Very scholarly article that looks at the role literature helps teach us about the diversity of our culture. The author looks at various aspects of literature and then gives teacher resources and a helpful bibliography.
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Sampling the Electorate

For Students 9th - 10th
As the pollster for candidate Higgins, you need to know how she is faring with different groups. Read her political profile, view the demographic profile of the city, decide on the groups to poll, review the results and learn about...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Variations in Language

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the use of variation in language when preparing a speech including directness, subjectivity and objectivity, abstraction, and accurate, reliable, unbiased, credible, and current sources.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Surveys and Sample

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to use surveying and sampling to collect accurate data.
Handout
University of California

University of California: 1895 1923 Mrs. Ayrton

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, "Reminiscences written by A. P. Trotter, President of The Institution of Electrical Engineers," recounts the author's appreciation for the work of Mrs. Hertha Ayrton, a brilliant experimental scientist who made significant...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to recognize and avoid stereotyping in media. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
Activity
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Math Steps: What Is It? Data

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This is a great place for lesson information on the concept of analyzing data - measures of central tendency. Three other tabs are available besides the "What Is It?" link. Tips and Tricks, When Students Ask, and Lesson Ideas also...
Article
Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: History of Capitalism in the Congo

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief review of journalist Adam Hochschild's book "King Leopold's Ghost." The review provides some, but minimal informative historical research about the brutalities of the Congo Free State. Nevertheless, it offers an example of what...
Handout
City University of New York

Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and the Present

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the equality problems women in China face even though things have changed since 1949. Includes information on divorce.

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