Spotting Biased Sources

How to spot 11 Types of Media Bias (Allsides.com)

The News Literacy Project: Get Smart About News

Interactive Media Bias Chart

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Advice for the Public: Mythbusters (World Health Organization)

Is Your US History Text Racist?

Sources about 2020

Google: The Year in Search 2020

Databases: Digital Maine Library

Visit Digital Maine Library and then choose one of the databases listed below:

• Gale Popular Magazines

• Gale Newsstand

• Proquest US Newsstream and Global Newsstream

• Wall Street Journal

Short Video: USING GALE NEWSSTAND & POPULAR MAGAZINES

Short Video: USING PROQUEST NEWSSTREAM

Primary Sources & Living History

Definition of a Primary Source:

From Britannica Kids: "a work that gives original information. It is something that comes from a time being studied or from a person who was involved in the events being studied. Some primary sources supply factual information about a subject. Other primary sources express the views of people who experienced events."

Examples of Primary Sources

Interviews with witnesses to events (radio, video, podcast, in person)

Creative responses to events (art, music, poetry)

Artifacts from events (physical objects, mementos)

Photographs, video, audio of actual events

Other: social media posts, diary/journal entries, political cartoons, letters/emails, speeches