Students explore the idea that anyone can publish on the Internet, so not all sites are equally trustworthy.

Students will: understand how the ease of publishing on the Internet might affect how much they can trust the content of some sites; learn criteria that will help them evaluate websites; apply the criteria to a site to determine how trustworthy and useful it is.

Go to: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/identifying-high-quality-sites-6-8

This lesson would go well with Project Citizen research.

Educator video (5:51): Using Critical Thinking to Find Trustworthy Websites: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/using-critical-thinking-to-find-trustworthy-websites

tags: fake news, media literacy

Source

https://www.commonsense.org/education/toolkit/news-and-media-literacy

Common Sense Education