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8th Grade -Current Event Resources: Home

Resources for helping students select and evaluate news sources.

Learning Goals

Students will understand that bias exists in all media sources.
Students will gain awareness of their own biases in gathering information.
Students will develop effective strategies for evaluating current event articles.
Students will be able to identify a number of credible sources from which to get current events.

View Multiple Perspectives

Allsides
Choose a current event and see how it is reported by various news sources.

Analyze Perspectives on an Issue

ProCon
Interested in understanding the pros and cons on various controversial issues?

What's Your Bias?

Understanding Political Perspective
Use this tool to understand the difference between "Conservative" and "Liberal" perspectives on various issues.

Political Typology Quiz
Take this quiz by the Pew Research Center to see where you fall on the political spectrum.

Newseum

Newseum
Tools and resources to help you evaluate information.

All the News That's Fit to Print

Kitsap Regional LIbrary
Click News under the Browse tab and access newspapers from across the country.

Your 09# is your library card.

Read Like a Fact-Checker

"Sort Fact From Fiction Online With Lateral Reading." YouTube. Stanford History Education Group, 16 Jan. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNprb2hgzU&feature=youtu.be.

Evaluating Sources

Nationwide Newspapers

How to Choose Your News

Fairness Tip Sheet

Fact Check

Factcheck.org
The Annenberg Public Policy Center investigates claims.
Snopes
The oldest, and largest fact-checking site for internet claims.
Wikipedia
Yes! Use Wikipedia to fact check.

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