Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?
From Project CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments)
In this workshop, students learn how to evaluate whether a news site is reliable. This group activity takes about 30 minutes and can be used for many different audiences by adjusting the examples used.
Lesson Plans and resources from Merlot Open Educational Resources
PBS Lesson plan: How to teach your students about fake news
From PBS, this lesson plan helps students acquire media literacy skills, including learning how to identify fake news. Targeted to grades 7-12 but may be adapted.
Common Sense Media Lesson Plan: includes common core standards alignment
American Association of School Librarians
Blog post on ways school librarians have reframed media literacy lessons to adapt to the new media landscape.
Newseum
The Newseum, headquartered in Washington, D.C., promotes, explains and defends free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. The website provides free learning tools on media literacy and First Amendment freedoms.