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Media Education Lab: My Pop Studio

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Get ready to go behind-the-scenes of the television you watch, magazines you read, music you listen to, and websites you visit! The 'studios' let you.. Create, Comment, Control. Targeted at girls, the...
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful review of important parts of your report and ways to strengthen it. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Pde: Sas: Identifying and Understanding Use of Testimonials in Advertising

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this lesson, 8th graders analyze and compare the propaganda techniques used in informational texts, with a particular focus on the use of testimonials. Includes links to recommended resources, scaffolding suggestions, and an...
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Kathy Schrock's Home Page: Abc's of Website Evaluation [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Noted technology educator Kathy Schrock provides an alphabetical list of qualities to evaluate in judging websites. She provides example websites to look at for each quality. In addition, she gives a list of websites to use when...
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International Reading Association

Reading Online: Classroom Strategies for Exploring Authenticity in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Four innovative classroom activities that actively engage students in analyzing and criticizing media messages. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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University of California

Uc Berkeley Library: Critical Evaluation of Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Questions to ask yourself when determining if a source is reliable. Discusses difference between primary and secondary source. List of reference sources and links to other sites that teach you how to evaluate sources....
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Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tip sheet to help both students and adults learn how to test online content for validity.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Evaluating Sources: General Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on evaluating your sources while reading them, giving suggestions on what to look for when reading.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Identifying High Quality Sites

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to "test before you trust" the sites and information found on the Web in this lesson plan and student handout from Common Sense Education. Assessing what you find on the Web is an essential skill for today's middle schoolers....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: News and Media Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Virtual Professional Learning Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Our Virtual Professional Learning Series is created for teachers-by teachers-to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With an emphasis on fun, engaging, accessible, and free tools for classrooms, these...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice working with primary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.
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Indiana University

Indiana University: Science vs. Non Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This mini-lesson at the Evolution and Nature of Science Institute site from Indiana University provides a criteria by which students can evaluate an idea or explanation for scientific credibility.
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Vroma Project

V Roma Project: Caligula: Historical Background

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a biography of Gaius, known as Caligula, the third emperor of Rome. Written in timeline form, it gives literary and artistic evidence about his life. It stresses the lack of credible information about his life and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this section of a textbook, students learn different techniques for writing an introduction. It provides links to information on the following topics: the role of an introduction, getting attention and interest, establishing...
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Walt's Navigating the Net Forum: Evaluating Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
This article helps searchers develop evaluation skills in judging information and helps web content developers increase the credibility of their materials for those looking for quality on the net.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Dawn at the Alamo: Reuben M. Potter to Mc Ardle

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a letter from Reuben M. Potter to "Dawn at the Alamo" artist, Henry McArdle, in which Potter talks about the credibility of Dickinson's account of the Alamo, among other things. This site includes images of the actual letter and...
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Although he was the old sage of the American Revolution and the Founding generation, Benjamin Franklin's considerable work in the areas of journalism, science, and invention often obscure his many contributions to the creation of the...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Searching the World Wide Web: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to use search engines and other tools to find credible information on the Internet. Accompanying slideshow includes Internet search activities.
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History's Women: Sacajawea, Shoshone Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
Sacajawea was a Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her presence gave the expedition credibility with the native peoples, who were less apt to be suspicious of the group's motives when they saw Sacajawea with her baby,...
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Uvcs: Critical Reading Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students read quotations from different "interest groups" or "lobbies" in this exercise and then perform a multiple-choice test to evaluate the credibility of each lobby group.

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