Lesson Plans
Breaking News Consumer's Handbook from WYNC
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y and Satirical "News" Sources focuses on domain names and web addresses
Fighting Fake News from KQED Learning
The Honest Truth about Fake News … and How Not to Fall for It (with Lesson Plan) from KQED
How to Choose Your News by Ted-Ed lesson plan features a nice introductory video to students
How to Teach Your Students About Fake News from PBS is a great already made lesson plan for discussing fake news with middle and high school students.
Media Education Lab has numerous FREE resources on a variety of issues such as copyright, propaganda, media literacy and multimedia authorship
Sponsored Content as Propaganda lesson plan from the Media Education Lab is a great high school plan for teaching native advertising. It can be modified for middle schoolers.
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y and Satirical "News" Sources focuses on domain names and web addresses
Fighting Fake News from KQED Learning
The Honest Truth about Fake News … and How Not to Fall for It (with Lesson Plan) from KQED
How to Choose Your News by Ted-Ed lesson plan features a nice introductory video to students
How to Teach Your Students About Fake News from PBS is a great already made lesson plan for discussing fake news with middle and high school students.
Media Education Lab has numerous FREE resources on a variety of issues such as copyright, propaganda, media literacy and multimedia authorship
Sponsored Content as Propaganda lesson plan from the Media Education Lab is a great high school plan for teaching native advertising. It can be modified for middle schoolers.
Rubrics and Checklists to Detect Fake News
The Fact Checkers Guide to Detecting Fake News by Glenn Kessler from the Washington Post is a great checklist to share with students.
The 5Ws of Website Evaluation by Kathy Schrock is a great checklist for students
The News Literacy Project Fake News Checklist uses guided questions to walk students through reading articles to determine what is fake.
The 5Ws of Website Evaluation by Kathy Schrock is a great checklist for students
The News Literacy Project Fake News Checklist uses guided questions to walk students through reading articles to determine what is fake.
Sources to Trust
Eyes Wide Open Updates
Here's How Liberal or Conservative Your News Outlets Are from Business Insider has a nice infographic on where news sources stand on the ideology spectrum.
Politifact fact-checks U.S. news. Could be good to share with students to see the criteria of looking at fake news.
Here's How Liberal or Conservative Your News Outlets Are from Business Insider has a nice infographic on where news sources stand on the ideology spectrum.
Politifact fact-checks U.S. news. Could be good to share with students to see the criteria of looking at fake news.
Further Teacher Resources
The Best Tips for Spotting Fake News in the Age of Trump by William Colglazier from Teen Vogue is a great, student-friendly article to share.
Can Librarians Help Solve the Fake News Problem by Donald Barclay for PBS provides a nice history of information literacy and a librarian's role in teaching the literacy.
Critical Thinking and Fake News from Yale University
Critical Thinking in the Fake News Era by Deborah Ng is a funny take on the fake news epidemic
Debate: How Can Students Become Prepared to Spot Fake News? from Listenwise
Fake News: Five French Election Stories Debunked by the BBC gives some great current fake news examples you could use with students that don't have US political stigma attached. I would also use an article about fake Facebook accounts influencing the French election as well.
The Fake News Fad: Let It Fade by Michelle Luhtala and Jacquelyn Whiting is a great opinion piece from School Library Journal. It offers a differing perspective on how to approach fake news.
How Fake News Tricks Your Brain by Alexandra Petri looks at the neurological impacts of fake news and also includes a quiz on detecting fake news.
How to Teach High Schoolers to Spot Fake News by Chris Berdik from Slate contains some great resources for teaching high schools and discusses the Stanford fake news survey.
How to Teach In a World of Alternative Facts by Maureen Costello from The Huffington Post
Inside the Macedonian Fake-News from Wired is a great article about the teens behind the fake news epidemic in the 2016 presidential election.
I Taught My 5th Graders How to Spot Fake News by Scott Bedley over at Vox is a great first person told essay on how he used the last election cycle to teach his 5th graders about fake news.
News Literacy: Critical Thinking Skills for the 21st Century by Peter Adams at Edutopia discusses the difference between digital native vs. digital naivete.
Students Have Struggled with Fake News Longer Than You Think by Benjamin Herold for PBS discusses other studies done by the University of Connecticut and Leu's New Literacies Research Lab which show fake news isn't a new problem
Teaching in a Post-Truth World by Brittney Beck from Teaching Tolerance. She discusses the importance of transpartisan spaces in the classroom.
This Is Not Fake News (but Don’t Go by the Headline) by Sydney Ember for the New York Times interviews news literacy expert Dr. Paul Mihailidis
Truth and the Hard Work of Thinking by Terry Newell in the Huffington Post examines facts vs. feelings and the science of deep thought.
Truth, Truthiness, Triangulation by Joyce Valenza in School Library Journal is the ULTIMATE toolkit for teaching fake news
Fake News and Teachable Moments by Katie Mgongolwa from Teaching Tolerance. In her article she discusses using a movie promotion as an example as it is apolitical.
National Association for Media Literacy Education offers a great definition on what media literacy is.