In this lesson, students are introduced to the 1973 coup in Chile and then practice using Wikipedia wisely to investigate information about the role of the United States in the coup. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.

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.

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.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, killing hundreds of people and causing billions of dollars in damage. The effects of the storm are still felt today in Louisiana and Mississippi, and the government response to the storm remains a politically charged issue. In this lesson, students learn about the storm and consider whether a range of online sources provide reliable information about the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.

In this lesson, students are introduced to the Iran-Contra Affair and then use Civic Online Reasoning strategies to evaluate the trustworthiness of online sources about the scandal. Teachers model expert strategies for evaluating a video posted on a social media site, and students employ these strategies to evaluate three other digital sources on the Iran-Contra Affair. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.

In this lesson, students are presented with a claim made on Twitter about a massacre of ethnic Mexicans in Porvenir, Texas, by law enforcement. Students use the internet to evaluate the trustworthiness of several historical sources and learn about the 1918 massacre. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.

When young people want to find out more about a topic or question, they often turn to Google. But open Internet searches routinely turn up contradictory results that mix fact with falsehood. Making sense of search results is even more challenging with politically loaded topics. This task asks students to perform an open search about a controversial figure in order to assess their ability to wade through information to find sources, evidence, and arguments that they trust. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.