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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,...
Handout
Arizona State University

Arizona State U.: Research Success for High School Students: Evaluating Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of resources for evaluating sources. Topics covered include knowing your sources, assessing whether a source is scholarly, the CRAAP Test (includes chart, worksheet, and website evaluation sheet), and how to identify fake news.
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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 students. Use this...
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Other

Central Michigan University: Website Research: Fake News

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Critical appraisal tests like CRAAP and RADAR can also be used to evaluate the credibility of news websites and the stories they produce (which often go viral on social media). Here are some more resources to help you check! (CRAAP...
Website
Other

University of Connecticut: Tools for Testing Web Accessibility

For Students 9th - 10th
If you would like to test your website's accessibility prior to launching it, there are many resources available. This page lists a variety of accessibility checkers and provides a checklist for reference.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass and American Non Fiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan serves as an introduction to American literary non-fiction writing and focuses primarily on teaching some basic approaches to recognizing rhetorical strategies adopted for persuasive effect in essays and non-fiction. The...
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Education Development Center

Center for Children and Technology: No Way: Photosynthesis

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars become editors at NoWay, a web site that publishes amazing-but-true stories. Two stories being considered for publication include claims about photosynthesis. Students must evaluate the validity of the claims by looking...

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