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Toolkit provides the highest quality professional support from Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins, Bring Me A Book’s Literacy Champions and coauthors of Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News and Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact From Fiction in the ‘Fake News’ Era.

Based on the book, Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins, this six-page laminated reference guide offers educators resources and strategies to define, detect and combat “fake news,” including links to fact-checking sites and lesson plans.

Intended to support classroom instruction; provides activities and questions for before, during, and after reading True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Fake News by Cindy L. Otis. Standards listed throughout the guide are aligned with the Common Core State Standards for grade eight, but activities and questions can be applied to multiple grade levels.

In 1901, David Hänig published research that led to what we know today as the taste map: an illustration that divides the tongue into four separate areas. It has since been published in textbooks and newspapers. There is just one problem: the map is wrong. So how do misconceptions like this spread, and what makes a fake fact so easy to believe?

The Beyond Fake News infographic identifies the 10 types of potentially misleading news, aimed to help in the fight against misinformation and disinformation. It was created to be used in class with real-world examples to spark classroom debate and reflection on the constructions of media. EAVI is currently updating the infographic and will share it on the website once completed.