News Literacy: Activities
Spotting Advertisements
- Spotting Ads ActivityHere's a pdf version of this activity. If you need us to email it to you, please send us an email.
This activity is the example that Stanford History Education Group used during their 2019 study.
Image Investigation
Verifying Content from First Draft
Turn your students into Detectives with this fun online challenge. Students will be presented with an online picture and a question to answer about it. See how well they do!
Fact vs. Fiction Quiz
- Fake News Self-AssessmentFrom Jennifer LaGarde's Book Fact vs. Fiction
BookBait
If you're interested in ClickBait and you want your students to become more familiar with it, have them write their own clickbait! You can promote reading at the same time by having students write book reviews and create a clickbait style image to lure other students into the review. Here's an example. (You can copy this if you want to create it in your own LibGuide account.)
This One Weird Trick Will Show You The 10 Best Things You Haven't Seen Yet!
Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay
Write the Headline
- PadletTake a look at the activity and you can recreate it using your own padlet and your own photos.
2 Truths and a Lie
Which headline is not true?
How do you know?