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 is a writing checklist that utilizes the Big6 model.

Need to teach your class about friendship and respect? This kindness day challenge is a free checklist of good deeds that reinforce positive character traits to improve the classroom climate and reduce bullying.

This is an activity to help students to identify different types of biases in media that can be applied to all sources.

This is an activity to help students to identify different types of biases in media that can be applied to all sources.

Take your search skills to the next level by helping disinformation expert Cindy Otis research the "Birds Aren't Real" conspiracy theory.

Learn the ways that ordinary people can document and expose wrongdoing, including monitoring news coverage for breaches of journalism standards, by examining a series of case studies. This uses video interviews from media professionals.

This mission tests your ability to differentiate between sources of information online that are unreliable and those that provide independent, verified information

This mission contains six examples of social media posts that make claims about a subject. Your job is to distinguish between posts that don't actually provide strong evidence in support of the claims they make and those that do.

List the five freedoms, connect scenarios with their legal protections and construct your own protected scenario. Uses media go examine our 1st amendment rights

Learn about the history of editorial cartooning as a unique and powerful form of opinion journalism and practice analyzing cartoons from the 1700s to the present day. This uses video interviews from media experts.

Explore the state of press freedoms in 22 nations, including videos of journalists in 10 countries recounting their reporting experiences. This uses video interviews from media professionals.

Learn why the First Amendment’s five rights and freedoms are so vital to democracy in the U.S. Through case studies, you weigh in on Supreme Court decisions in which these protections were challenged. This uses video interviews from media professionals.

The Founders designed a system of checks and balances into our Constitution so we'd avoid abuses of power that had been experienced under British rule. Join James Madison and John Marshall for a discussion along with 21st century politicians to learn if that system still functions as intended.

This page provides a basic overview of checks and balances and what each branch can do to check the other.

The principle of checks and balances prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful. Examples of checks and balances include vetoing of bill, ratifying treating, judicial review and others. This lesson provides video clips with examples and explanations of checks and balances.

Prerequisite: Students need to know the function of each of the branches of government. In this activity, students examine documents from U.S. history to examples of specific "checks and balances."

In this activity students will analyze documents that span the course of American history to see examples of "checks and balances" between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in action. Students will then match the documents they have examined with an appropriate description of the branches of government involved in the action.

John Armstrong, Weber State University answers the question: How do cheesemakers use physics to cut and grade cheese?

Thunder Jalili, University of Utah answers the question: What are the facts about health risks and cheese?