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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Evaluating Digital Information: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to evaluate digital sources. During the digital evaluation process, students are directed to analyze the following: authority, accuracy, objectivity, and currency. After the tutorial,...
Rubric
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Web Site Evaluation Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a two-page PDF of a rubric to use in the evaluation of websites in the quest for credible websites for research purposes. RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format
Handout
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: The Write Site: Evaluating Your Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This essay resource teaches students how to select the type of evidence that best lends weight and credibility to their topics and how to organize the evidence effectively. A chart is provided as a quick reference. Click on pages 2-4 at...
Article
Other

Babson College: Evaluating Quality on the Net

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Internet research is a fine writing tool, but can you trust the information you find? This presentation by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries at Babson College, gives advice on assessing the quality and credibility of information...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice analyzing the evidence that supports or opposes an argument. They are also going to learn to analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of the evidence so you can decide whether to accept the...
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Other

Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Establishing Ethos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on establishing ethos or credibility. You can establish ethos-or credibility-in two basic ways: you can use or build your own credibility on a topic, or you can use credible sources, which, in turn, builds your...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Appeals: Appeals to Ethos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on appeals to Ethos, When you evaluate an appeal to ethos, how successfully a speaker or writer establishes authority or credibility with his or her intended audience. You ask yourself what elements of the essay or...
Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Helping Your Audience Listen More

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on helping your audience listen better by offering strategies such as read feedback cues, employ strategies for maintaining audience focus, use strategies to maximize audience understanding, build credibility, and...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Gathering Evidence: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the importance of gathering information that provides evidence for your topic that is credible, current, and relevant. It also discusses how to find and evaluate sources. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the introduction to your speech. It includes the role of the introduction, strategies for the opening, getting attention and interest, establishing credibility, self-presentation, and introducing the topic, thesis,...
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.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Using Sources: Putting It Together: Using Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a summary of the lessons on integrating credible sources using paraphrase, summary, and quotations and citing sources. Click on the Next button on the bottom right to learn about Why It Matters: Multimodality; you will have the...
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you are going to practice analyzing the evidence that supports or opposes an argument. You are also going to learn to analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of the evidence so you can decide whether to accept the...
Website
Other

Nctp: Ez Audits Accountability Made E Z

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP)offers five QUICK-START guidelines that will help you achieve success in your accountability efforts. These five steps are broken down to: Attitude, Organization, Maintenance, Growth and...
Website
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Election of 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
American Experience's website on Woodrow Wilson gives a good summary of the election of 1912, an election based on philosophy rather than the personalities of the candidates. This was an election in which four parties ran credible...
Article
US Geological Survey

Usgs: North Carolina District Science Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
The North Carolina District of the Water Resources Discipline, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), is committed to collecting hydrologic data and conducting hydrologic investigations of the highest quality. North Carolina District staff...
Website
Marxists Internet Archive

The Patriotes Rebellion Quebec 1837 1839

For Students 9th - 10th
This addresses class conflicts in Lower Canada by understanding the The Patriotes Rebellion in terms of frustrations with the British Government and their slow response to the 92 Resolutions. It is an interesting read, with related pages...
Primary
Other

National Security Agency: A Priceless Advantage [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A report written by the NSA on the U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians in the spring of 1942. Very credible and very complete. (Third edition)
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will focus on summary and critique separately so that you can distinguish between the two. You will learn how to summarize a text and how to distinguish between essential and nonessential information when summarizing. You...
Website
United Nations

United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent source for credible population data. Contains links to the world population data and demographic trends and themes.
Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Evaluating Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Are all historical sources equally trustworthy? How might the reliability of a historical document be affected by the circumstances under which it was created? In this activity, students sharpen their...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian:sourcing Classroom Poster

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sourcing asks students to consider who wrote a document as well as the circumstances of its creation. Who authored a given document? When? For what purpose? This poster reminds students before reading a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on creating a research question including determining the purpose and audience, brainstorming a topic, researching the question for information, and refining and narrowing the question. W.9-10.7 Research....

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