Resources that help students
evaluate the relevance & credibility of information sources

Digital Detectives by Jennifer LaGarde:

• "Grades 4-5 Mini Lessons for Lens: Access" Notes for the Teacher E

• "Seek and Find Community Reading Experience" Mini Lesson E

• "Finish the Comic #3" Mini Lesson E

• "Grades 6-8 Mini Lessons for Lens: Access" Notes for the Teacher 

• "Fill in the Blanks - Community Reading Experience Take 1" Mini Lesson

• "Mobile vs Traditional: Can you spot the difference?" Mini Lesson

Civic Online Reasoning:

• "Intro to Who's Behind the Information? Saturday School" lesson

• "Intro to Who's Behind the Information?" lesson

• "Intro to Lateral Reading" lesson

• "Lateral Reading vs. Vertical Reading" lesson

• "Lateral Reading Resources & Practice" lesson

• "Lateral Reading about Renewable Energy" lesson 

• "Lateral Reading with Wikipedia" lesson

• "Lateral Reading with Fact-Checking Organizations" lesson

• "Domain Names" lesson

• "Sort Fact from Fiction Online with Lateral Reading" video

Ctrl-F:

• "Lesson 2: Investigate the Source" component of series

• "Investigate the source" video

• "Evaluate expertise" video

• "Just add Wikipedia" video

• • "Advanced Wikipedia: Bias & agenda" video

  • "Example Bank" collection of examples for practicing skills

Mike Caulfield:

• "Check Please: Investigate the Source" lesson

• "Check Please: Further Investigation" lesson

News Literacy Project:

• "InfoZones" self-paced Checkology lesson 

• "Be Health Informed" self-paced Checkology lesson 

• "Evaluating Science-Based Claims" self-paced Checkology lesson 

Project Look Sharp:

• "Incan Religion – What Sources Should I Use?" lesson

• "Tidal Waves & Tsunamis in Film: Fact & Fiction" lesson

Lesley James:

• "How lateral reading can help you find reliable information sources" activity

• "Why it's good to know about different types of information sources" activity

• "What to do about perspectives & bias in information sources" activity

• "Choosing Info Sources" Google Site 

• "Information Source Investigation" Google Form

• "Wikipedia Driver's License Study Guide" video & Google Form

Crash Course Navigating Digital Information:

• • "Who can you trust" video

  • "Check yourself with lateral reading" video

  • "Using Wikipedia" video

Other resources:

• MediaSmarts' "Break the Fake: What's In the Frame?" lesson E

• Poynter's "Should you trust media bias charts" article

• Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart resource

• Media Bias/Fact Check resource

• AllSides resource