Resources that help students
check the accuracy of visual representations of data 

News Literacy Project:

• "Making Sense of Data" self-paced Checkology lesson 

• "Can You Make Sense of Data" quiz could be used to check for understanding

Civic Online Reasoning:

• "Evaluating Data" lesson

• "Evaluating Data" assessment

Ted Ed/Ted Talk:

• "How to spot a misleading graph" video 

• "How statistics can be misleading" video 

• "How to defend yourself against misleading statistics in the news" video 

Other resources:

• Project Look Sharp's "Changing Our Media Habits: The Impact of the Pandemic" lesson 

• New York Times' "What's going on in this graph?" daily activity 

• Center for an Informed Public's "Uncovering reality" interactive website

• Crash Course Navigating Digital Information's "Data & infographics" video

• SciToons' "Data Visualization and Misrepresentation" video

• "Information is beautiful" website can be used for examples of data representations

• "Spurious Correlations" website can be used for examples of data misrepresentations