A: Yes! So glad you asked!
Tl; DR: The News Literacy Project just released a new (and free!) ‘Camp Fact-Check” kit that is designed to help educators build kids in searching for information, evaluating evidence, and assessing claims.
Are you teaching summer school and looking for curriculum ideas that can boost kids skills in news and science literacy? Or maybe you have kids who will be home this summer and you are looking for activities to engage them in to help them become more savvy consumers of information before the next school year starts. You might also have a kid who is a budding journalist who is eager to starting learning tricks of the trade for fact-checking over the summer.
If any of these apply, The News Literacy Project’s new ‘Camp Fact-Check’ kit has some amazing resources worth checking out! Bonus…it’s FREE!
This kit includes lessons for kids in grades 6-12 on topics such as:
🟢Evaluating the credibility of information
🟢Googling like a ‘pro’
🟢Understanding different levels of scientific evidence
🟢Verifying information like a journalist
🟢Learning about conspiratorial thinking
And more! Lessons include videos and other interactive activities.
If you are interested in learning more about the kit, The News Literacy project is hosting a free informational webinar next week on Wednesday 5/29 at 2PM ET, register here.
To all those teachers, librarians, and school and district leaders making a point to include media, science, and data literacy in your curriculum-a big thank you from Those Nerdy Girls!
For more information about the ‘Camp Fact-Check’ kit contents, click here.
See a few of our other past posts with resources for helping kids learn to navigate misinformation here.
And here.
