Initial Publication Date: January 21, 2025

Lesson 1: Intro to Credibility

The credibility of a source is a measure of how trusted or believable it is. What does it mean for a source to be credible? How do you decide whether to believe someone?

Summer Workshop Resources

LR Activity: Intro to Credibility title slide


Lesson Plan

The Slide Deck link will direct you to a pop-up that prompts you to create your own, editable copy of the slide deck. Teacher notes and details on the lesson plan are included in the notes section of each slide.

The Guiding Questions link will also direct you to a pop-up that prompts you to create your own, editable copy of the document. Before giving to students, fill in the names of the sources/topics you select in the highlighted sections

Slide Deck

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17eOOwog2vAfyCKf0W7LT4RcFGERpVOt6pE_xEPy34YE/copy

Guiding Questions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g2--gerurDVIMnsI3_y-uIeAG1cqk8HINq-95mlyJoI/copy

Lateral Reading Sources Mapped to MEL Topics

There are a variety of articles in this document that are mapped to Model-Evidence Link diagram activities. For each topic, three sources are provided.

LR Sources