CNN
Cnn: Newspaper Won't Identify Sources in Bombing
Remember Richard Jewell? He was the man accused of being the Olympic bomber by anonymous sources. Jewell was cleared and sued the paper for libel. Links to related stories allows viewers to follow Jewell's story.
Information Fluency
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: Micromodules: Author
Tutorial explaining the importance of determining the authorship as one of the criteria to evaluating a website. Following the article is a post-test to assess your understanding of the material. The 21st Century Information Fluency...
Other
Ryerson University: Library: Research Help Guide: Evaluate Your Sources
Resources to help students evaluate the materials they use in their research.
iCivics
I Civics: News Feed Defenders
NewsFeed Defenders is a challenging game designed to sharpen students' news literacy skills. Students will join a fictional social media site focused on news and information. They will learn elements of high-quality journalism to be able...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: Sugar
Eighth graders will explore the impact that sugar production and trade had on the economic and social course of world history, including in Louisiana.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Assessing an Author's Claims
Learn how to evaluate resoruces and author's claims.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comarison/contrast: Unusual Smear Campaigns [Pdf]
In this PDF lesson plan, students unpack two opposite concepts by creating an imaginary "Smear Campaign," pretending the two concepts are opposing each other in election. Students may create print, radio, or television ads to show how...
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American Music Conference
AMC's goal is to build credibility for music and music education. Its efforts in this regard appear impressive. Teachers will find useful resources such as survey results and research data that is accessible. Teens will enjoy visiting...
Edutopia
Edutopia: K 5 I Pad Apps for Evaluating Evaluation
The cognitive domain Evaluating focuses on skills necessary to judge the value of ideas, techniques, products, or solutions. Students must evaluate the credibility or functionality of given content with clearly defined criteria and...
Other
Six Nations: The Great Iroquois Confederation
This website provides information on the Six Nations or Iroquois Confederacy. Primarily aimed at defeating mistaken assumptions about the history and social organization of the Iroquois, it fails to include sources. Students should look...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Critiquing a Source
This lesson goes over how to critique a research source for reliability. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite
Other
Information Literacy Activities
These worksheets cover many aspects of the research process, as well as censorship, web page evaluation and boolean operators.
EL Education
El Education: Vinnie Di Carlo
An online book entitled Vinnie DiCarlo by fifth and sixth grade students from Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. The book includes an in-depth character study based on a character created by the students and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Research Questions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explores the steps of the research process - selecting an appropriate research topic, and delving more into the topic.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8
Other
Who Is Hosting This: How to Evaluate Web Resources
This is an excellent, compact guide to evaluating resources on the Internet. It breaks everything down into easy steps and tells you how to do each. Included is an infographic called 'Evaluating Web Resources: A 60 Second Guide.' It also...
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