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This lesson asks students to analyze a historical claim made on Twitter about the Equal Rights Amendment and to use the internet to investigate whether the claim is reliable. To begin, use the Equal Rights Amendment PowerPoint to introduce the tweet and provide students with historical context for the ERA. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.
Students will compare two websites (one obviously more credible than the other) and evaluate them using the "CRAP checklist." They will look at factors like currency, reliability, accuracy, and purpose.
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource helps students evaluate their research skills using the Big6 model.
This lesson introduces students to evaluating evidence on social media and provides students with an opportunity to practice evaluating evidence on Twitter and Facebook. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.
The teacher will show the Dog Island website and ask the students to help evaluate whether Dog Island is a good place to send his/her dog. Students will evaluate domain, author, date, appearance and reasonability to determine if Dog Island is a credible website and if Dog Island is a real place.
Wikipedia contains a vast supply of information and is the 5th most trafficked website in the world. Still, students often draw overly broad generalizations about the site. This task asks students to evaluate the trustworthiness of an article on Wikipedia, assessing whether they can reason about the specific features that make a Wikipedia article more or less reliable. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource describes a Big6 lesson focused on the final step of the Big6 model, evaluation.
Students will learn the basics of fact-checking a news story, and the difference between primary and secondary sources.
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource guides students through writing a fiction book report.
1st/2nd grade: Students will use a visual, physically involved activity to understand and categorize fiction/narrative and non-fiction/informational books.
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