Media Literacy - helpful resources for instruction about the validity of sources and to help students determine fact versus fiction - Factitious - a game to test your sense of real versus fake news stories
- NewseumED - activities, artifacts, and lessons to teach media literacy (requires sign up for some resources)
- Red Feed Blue Feed - a Wall Street Journal split screen demonstration of ideological feeds in Facebook
Fact Checking- Politifact - a site that rates the accuracy/validity of statements made by elected officials and political pundits
- FactCheck - a site aiming to reduce the deception and confusion within politics
- OpenSecrets - a site that documents the flow of money in American politics
- Snopes - a site that provides fact checking from politics to pop culture
Databases- ProCon.org - an excellent source for pros and cons about controversial issues
- EBSCOhost - a link to EBSCO and Explora databases for research
- DOAJ - (Directory of Open Access Journals) provides full text of scholarly articles
- Google Scholar - Google's search engine specifically for scholarly articles
- Google News - Google's search that returns results from online news sources
Video Libraries
- Frontline - VIDEO series that provides insight into some of our nation's and world's most complex problems
- American Experience - VIDEO series that delves deep into American stories; people, places, periods, and events
- NOVA - VIDEO series that explores science related topics; astronomy, physics, biology, anthropology, etc
Photo Libraries - licensed for reuse, so yes, you can legally use these amazing photos in your presentations...just check for citation instructions
News Sources- BBC - a British based news organization that provides a "non-American" perspective
- Al Jazeera - an Arabic news outlet based in Qatar that provides a uniquely Middle Eastern perspective
- Washington Post - a noted newspaper from our nation's capitol that reports on issues within the US capitol as well as the world
- Politico - a more conservative website that focuses on American politics
- St. Louis Post Dispatch - the largest local newspaper reporting on our city, state, region, and nation
- click Sign In in the top right corner of the page
- use ntnewspaper as the username and password
- click on the image of the newspaper to access a digital copy of the printed daily newspaper
- use the navigation tools at the bottom and right of the "newspaper"
Citations- Purdue Owl - a "go-to" site providing MLA and APA formatting and style guides
Genres - open to learn the distinction between fiction and nonfiction as well as the various fiction categories (genres) that we house in our school library
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