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Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They? ActivityEvaluating Sources: How Credible Are They? Activity
Publisher
College Board
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Grade
7th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Technology
Internet Access
Year
2018
Usage Permissions
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Lexile Measures
1170L
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Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

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How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally, pupils research marketing and consumerism and write a paragraph summarizing what they learned.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

evaluating sources, research writing, close reading, reading comprehension, text analysis, making inferences, textual evidence, primary source analysis, primary sources, secondary sources, secondary source analysis, evaluating websites

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Allow partners to peer edit each other's paragraphs
  • Provide several examples of primary and secondary sources

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires computer and Internet access
  • Expects instructors to pre-select two websites for student evaluation 

Pros

  • Provides options for lesson differentiation 
  • Includes step-by-step implementation instructions and helpful notes  

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.7.1 RI.7.6 W.7.2.a W.7.7 W.7.8 SL.7.2

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