Artist Evah Fan makes drawings, zines and more in a style that is influenced by wordplay and folk art techniques. She tells visual stories through her interpretation of words she finds tantalizing with their multiple meanings. She emphasizes that style is not a skill that can be found overnight, but rather developed over years and realized in retrospect.

Recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks by using RumorGuard’s 5 Factors for evaluating credibility of news and other information. This classroom poster displays the 5 Factors alongside “Knows” and “Dos” for evaluating credibility.

Need your students to do some research and want to make sure that they know how to find credible sources? There is the perfect Google for Education Applied Digital Skills Lesson for that!  Thumbnail Photo Credits: "Keyboard and Encyclopedia" by brad.rourke is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 

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.

In this activity, students will analyze Benjamin Franklin’s body of work to better understand his contribution in the key areas of academics, innovation, and diplomacy during the Revolutionary War Era. Students will choose and research one of Franklin’s primary areas of work alongside similar or related works by others that preceded, coincided with, or may have influenced Franklin’s achievements. Students will examine the historical, political, and social circumstances that shaped Franklin’s work and made it possible for him to flourish. Students will investigate how Franklin’s achievements have been built upon by other inventors, politicians, diplomats, and writers since Franklin’s lifetime.

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 page of the Big 6 website is a guide to help you develop Big6 units for your curriculum standards or objectives.

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 goal of this Illustrative Mathematics task is to use properties of exponents for whole numbers in order to explain how expressions with fractional exponents are defined.

Practice working with elementary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.

This lesson provides students with an introduction to what a floor plan is used for and what a floor plan should include.

In this report, released by researchers from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) in 2016, researchers share that, when it comes to evaluating information that flows across social channels or pops up in a Google search, young and otherwise digital-savvy students can easily be duped.

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.

This lesson plan is co-taught in the media center with a classroom teacher who has assigned a research paper. The students should have an approved topic but have not started their research. They will learn how to evaluate sources they can use in their research paper. Once they have at least one source chosen, the students will create and share a short screen recording showing the different elements of the source that make it a good choice for their research paper. Citations:Per A.J. Andersson, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsCRAAP https://libguides.cmich.edu/web_research/craap#:~:text=CRAAP%20stands%20for%20Currency%2C%20Relevance,one%20method%20for%20evaluating%20content.

Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed end, and an open middle. This means that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problems. Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding.

Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed end, and an open middle. This means that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problems. Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding.

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.