Resources that help students
evaluate claims and assess evidence

Civic Online Reasoning:

• "Intro to What Do Other Sources Say? Saturday School" lesson

• "Intro to What Do Other Sources Say?" lesson

• "Intro to What's the Evidence? Saturday School" lesson

• "Intro to What's the Evidence?" lesson

• "Claims on Social Media" lesson

• "Verifying Claims on Social Media" lesson

• "Evaluating Evidence" lesson

• "Argument Analysis" assessment

Ctrl-F:

• • "Lesson 3: Check the Claim" component of series

  • "Advanced claim check" video

  • "Example Bank" collection of examples for practicing skills

Lesley James:

• "What to watch out for when you're making a claim" activity

• "What to watch out for when you're investigating the evidence used to support a claim" activity

Other resources:

• News Literacy Project's "Arguments & Evidence" self-paced Checkology lesson 

• MediaSmarts's "Thinking About Hate" lesson

• Crash Course Navigating Digital Information's "Evaluating evidence" video

• Information Is Beautiful's "Rhetological fallacies" website

• "Your Logical Fallacy Is" website