District/Building INFOhio Coach, Karen Gedeon, from Cuyahoga Falls City Schools created these activities for middle school students to begin exploring ISearch.

Revised with assistance from INFOhio Users Council members, ISearch BINGO can be broken into 3 separate activities which are listed below. Review the activities, and then download and print the documents you need.

INFOhio Users Council member and Ohio school librarian Amy Keister from Louisville City Schools created this activity perfect to get middle school students started in ISearch for exploration and research. Download and print to reproduce.

INFOhio Users Council members created this Jigsaw puzzle about Famous Ohioans.  Students use ISearch to find the answers (and cite their sources) to the questions, then work together in groups to solve the Jigsaw Puzzle.

This infographic offers an overview of how confirmation bias and motivated reasoning impact our beliefs. It also outlines some key tips on how to best defend ourselves against cognitive biases.

This infographic contains six tips to help students think clearly about news media bias, a nuanced and important topic.

This content pack is intended to be a way for educators to discover new resources and lessons for teaching information literacy skills in grades 6-12. The instructional materials contained within this pack were selected to support students as they grow and develop the following skills. Develop a topic for research. Explain research goals. Formulate essential questions and questions to guide research. Reflect on prior knowledge.

Differentiate between different levels of scientific evidence using this infographic. Discover eight distinct levels of scientific evidence arranged in a pyramid that reflects a spectrum of quality. This resource was developed in partnership with Dr. Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist, educator and science literacy influencer.

A classroom-ready guide to accompany Season 3 Episode 1 of NLP's Is that a fact? podcast: “Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?” Our guest is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as “generative AI.”

A classroom-ready guide to accompany Season 3 Episode 3 of NLP's Is that a fact? podcast: “Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports.” Guest host Jake Lloyd digs into how misinformation manifests in the sports world with author and journalist Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and host of the Spotify podcast Jemele Hill is Unbothered. Hill discusses not only how sports falsehoods spread, but also how the nature of sports reporting makes it more resistant to manipulation than news coverage.

A classroom-ready guide to accompany Season 3 Episode 5 of NLP's Is that a fact? podcast: “Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention.” We discuss how the blurring of fact-based news and opinion has left the public more confused than informed. Our guest is Tom Rosenstiel, professor at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism and co-author of The Elements of Journalism.

With the ever-changing online and social media landscape for accessing news, students need tools to sift through the good, the bad, and the ugly and develop skills to determine credibility, recognize bias, and fact check. Teachers need high quality materials to support the teaching of media literacy. This content package is intended for educators to easily find lessons, eBooks, videos, websites, articles, units of study, graphics, and other resources to support the teaching of media literacy and to help students “navigate the news.”

Students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings then choose and explain specific names and profiles to represent themselves online.