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Evaluating Reliable Sources Lesson PlanEvaluating Reliable Sources Lesson Plan
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Southern Poverty Law Center
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3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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Evaluating Reliable Sources

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A lesson plan instills the importance of locating reliable sources. Scholars are challenged to locate digital sources, analyze their reliability, search for any bias, and identify frequently found problems that make a source unusable. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

education technology, integrating technology, information technology, technology resources, Technology, evaluating sources, informational texts, literacy, bias, media bias, media analysis

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Preview the three websites prior to assigning them to confirm their level of appropriateness for your population
  • Turn on a Safe Search or visit a preapproved stock-photo website to keep class members from seeing things they shouldn't  
  • Post reflection questions on a blog—direct learners to answer each question and reply to at least one peer 
  • If applicable, coordinate the lesson with the school technology teacher—team teach and build on each other's current curriculum to address digital literacy 

Classroom Considerations

  • The lesson requires copies and each participant to have access to a digital learning device with internet 

Pros

  • Two links direct pupils to helpful videos 
  • Encourages pupils to be positive digital citizens and make smart choices 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.3.2 RI.3.7 RI.3.9 RI.4.2 RI.4.7 RI.4.8 RI.4.9 RI.5.2 RI.5.8 RI.5.9

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