This comprehensive lesson plan focuses on misinformation and fact-checking. Intended for grades 3 and up, it includes essential questions, electronic materials, vocabulary, procedural directions, ideas for differentiation, checks for understanding, examples, an evaluation rubric, and ideas for an extension opportunity. Depending on the classroom, it could take between 30-60 minutes, or be broken up over a few class periods.

Welcome to Research 4 Success (R4S)! The course is designed to supplement the instruction of research and information literacy skills for students in grades 9-12. Purpose and Design of the CourseR4S consists of six learning units. The six units can be used together or they can be used individually. Each unit contains three lessons. Each lesson has resources and activities to supplement the instruction of research, inquiry, and information literacy skills.Students learn key skills using a combination of videos, digital texts, and eBooks.Students practice key skills using a combination of templates, tasks, and interactives. Students apply the skills they have learned and practice as they develop a research project under the guidance of an educator. 

Knowing how to identify accurate, reliable, quality information can help you make the best decision and create the best product or project. Knowing how to select the best information will save you time and might save you money.Each lesson includes activities and resources selected to help students learn, practice, and apply research skills. Students will learn how to evaluate information, practice selecting information to support a research topic or answer research questions, and apply effective strategies for selecting information to support research.

Students will learn how to evaluate information they find on the internet and within databases. 

Students will practice selecting information to support a research topic or answer research questions.

If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes and visual demonstrations of concepts. Teachers will want to choose the non-uw librarians and teachers link for additional resources.

In previous decades, most news with global reach came from several major newspapers and networks with the resources to gather information directly. The speed with which information spreads now, however, has created the ideal conditions for something called circular reporting. Noah Tavlin sheds light on this phenomenon. [3:42]

This site gives excellent information on why it's important to evaluate the content of everything you find in cyberspace, and also tells you how to do so. It also contains information about using search engines effectively and how to evaluate individual resources. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7