Below I have collected a slew of resources to aid teachers and their students with the task of spotting fake news. The articles, guides, lesson plans and videos deal with the importance of evaluating websites. If you have any more to add, please comment below.
UPDATED: 8/31/20
ARTICLES
4 Steps Schools Need to Take To Combat Fake News- Huffington Post
5 Ways to Spot Fake News- from Common Sense Media
The 5 Types of Fakes News- from Huffington Post
6 Ways to Spot Fake News- from Snopes
10 Ways to Spot a Fake News Article- from EasyBib
The Classroom Where Fake News Fails- from NPR
Fake News Fooling Millions- from Scholastic's Up Front Magazine
Fake News Sites to Watch Out For on Facebook
Fighting Fake News- American Libraries
Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites- N.Y. Times
Higher Ed Takes on Fake News Epidemic- from Education Dive
How Photos Fuel the Spread of Fake News
How Savvy Are Your Students? 7 Fake Websites to Really Test Their Evaluation Skills-EasyBib
How to Spot Fake News (and Teach Kids to Be Media Sayvy)- Common Sense Media
Most Students Don't Know When News is Fake, Stanford Study Finds- Wall Street Journal
A News Literacy Tool Kit for a "Post Truth" World- Joyce Valenza's blog
The Real History of Fake News- from The Columbia Journalism Review
The Smell Test: Educators Can Counter Fake New with Information Literacy- SLJ
Students Need Our Help Detecting Fake News- from MiddleWeb
Three Historical Examples of "Fake News"- Scientific American
What are You Doing to Teach Students to Spot Fake News Stories?- by Bill Ferriter
What Stands Between Fake News and Students? Educators- from NEA
GUIDES TO WEBSITE EVALUATION
Misc.
Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources
Credible Sources Count- view a 10-minute interactive tutorial about how to find sites you can trust. EXCELLENT!
EasyBib Website Evaluation Guide
Finding Reliable Information Online- slide presentation from middle school teacher Sean Hinger
How Savvy are Your Students? 7 Fake Websites to Really Test Their Evaluation Skills- EasyBib
*Kathy Schrock
*The 5 W's of Website Evaluation
*Critical Evaluation of a Website- high School
*Critical Evaluation of a Website- middle school
*Critical Evaluation of a Website- elementary school
News Literacy Project- "NLP, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy."
Ten Questions for Fake News Detection- infographic checklist
University of Berkeley Library- an excellent tutorial on finding information on the Internet
Website Evaluation Guide- from EasyBib
INFOGRAPHICS
NEWS BIASES CHART by Vanessa Otero
Ten Questions for Fake News Detection- infographic is in PDF form
LESSON PLANS
Brain Pop: Fact and Opinion- interactive fun for the younger kids
Evaluating the Purpose of a Website- from EasyBib
Evaluating Sources in a 'Post-Truth' World: Ideas for Teaching About Fake News- NY Times Lessons
Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources- NY Times Learning Network
Fighting Fake News- includes Common Core standards
"He Said, She Said"-Reliable Sources- from School Journalism site
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation- from ReadWriteThink; grades 9-12
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide- lesson for high schoolers
How to Teach Your Students About Fake News- from PBS NewsHour; grades 7-9
I Heard it 'Round the Internet: Sexual Health Education & Authenticating Online Information- grades 7-9
Media Literacy and Fake News- from C-SPAN; grade not specified, but probably 9-12
VIDEOS
WEBSITES
FactCheck- project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center
Fake News Sites to Watch Out For on Facebook-
Fake News Watch- updates regularly; lists Fake/Hoax Websites, Satire Websites and Clickbait Websites.
Politifact- checking U.S. politics
Museum of Hoaxes- bogus web sites from A to Z
News Literacy Project- assists students in discerning real vs. fake news
Snopes- fact-checking site
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