This lesson plan for Grades 4-8 will help guide students to identify and classify resources for credibility, explain why websites should be evaluated for credibility, evaluate example websites, and share their findings with classmates (USA: Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University 2021). 

Researchers at Indiana University ʺanalyze[d] 14 million messages spreading 400 thousand articles on Twitter during ten months in 2016 and 2017ʺ and found ʺevidence that social bots played a disproportionate role in spreading articles from low-credibility sources.ʺ(USA: Nature Communications 2018).

Students will learn about the types of Supreme Court opinions and the influence of legal precedent. Additionally, this Media Moment Mini-lesson introduces traditional authors of opinion pieces and explores factors that should influence a student’s evaluation of an author’s credibility. (USA: iCivics 2018)

Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. This project helps students learn to critically evaluate and ʺjudge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues.ʺ (USA: Stanford University 2019)