Reliability of Sources

Grade
6-9
9-12
Lesson Duration

From The Learning Network’s “50 Ways to Teach With Current Events” by Michael Gonchar

This site has 50 ideas to help teachers bring current events into the classroom.

Idea #42: “How do we distinguish good journalism from propaganda or just shoddy reporting?” A handy graphic organizer helps students apply the acronym IMVAIN to an article to determine whether the sources are: Independent, Multiple, Verifiable, Authoritative, Informed and Named.

tags: fake news, media literacy

Source

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/50-ways-to-teach-current-events/?_r=0#design

The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content.