Take a look at the 4th Lesson: Lateral Reading with News Stories
Look at both the student and teacher materials for this lesson.
How do you teach 3rd and 4th graders how to evaluation online information?
- How would you teach them what a reliable source is? And who an authority on a topic might be?
- How would you teach them to question who is behind the information they read?
- How would you teach them it is important to find multiple sources of information when they are writing about a topic?