This section includes lesson plans created by other groups and also serves to illustrate how some of the resources in this toolkit can be combined to create a lesson-plan to teach a particular news literacy skill. Below are some of the combinations that we have developed into lesson plans, organized by skill or issue they aim to address, but we encourage you to create your own combinations. Please send any lesson plans you have developed or identified and would like included in the toolkit to PLP for addition.

Lesson Plans

SHEG – Evaluating Sources
Newseum ED: Can I trust the creator? Activity and Worksheet
Newseum ED: Do the facts hold up? Activity and Worksheet
KQED: Above the Noise
KQED: Fighting Fake News
KQED: Source Checking Greatest Hits
KQED: Teach
TED Ed: How to choose your news
NewsGuard Guide for Educators
NY Times Lesson Plan: Evaluating sources in a post-truth world
PBS: Student Reporting Lab Lessons
Center for News Literacy: Digital Resource Center
Oakland Public Library Resource Guides for Educators

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