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This week on Erin's blog post, she's talking all about resources to help your students identify fake news. This is not a topic that is super familiar to me because my students don't do a lot of researching without guidance from me. However, it is relevant even at the elementary level. Our students are constantly being inundated with information from television, social media, apps, and more. While it is hard for even some adults to identify fake news, it is even harder for kids. They don't even recognize the fact that someone might not be telling the whole truth about a topic.

On this week's blog, Erin talks about some great ways to teach your students how to recognize when a source is trustworthy or not, especially when it comes to online sources. There are eight specific resources she mentioned...you can check them out here on her blog. These would be especially useful for 5th grade and up!

1. iCivics News Literacy Unit

2. Website Evaluation

3. Debating the Responsibility of Media Companies

4. Historical Event Clickbait

5. Newseum

6. Common Sense Media

7. Fact Vs Fiction

8. Fake New Bulletin Board Display

Each of these topics come with visuals and links to units of study as well as resources on TPT or Pinterest! 
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