Should I Trust This? Learn to Analyze Sources For Teenagers in an Online World

Learn five skills to help you in history class and everyday teenage life! You'll learn how to analyze sources to decide if they are trustworthy. Test your skills in an Escape Room on the last day.

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12 reviews for this class

Completed by 25 learners

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55 minutes

per class

Once per week

over 3 weeks

12-15

year olds

2-10

learners per class

per learner - per class

How does a “Multi-Day” course work?

Meets multiple times at scheduled times

Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher

Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries

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Description

Class Experience

Teenagers are bombarded with information everyday and it is hard to know what to trust and what not to! This class will help students determine how to trust something or not by learning 5 historical thinking skills. These skills will help them analyze primary and secondary sources, determine if sources are credible, and make arguments using evidence from those sources. The skills include:
- source: understand the details of a source
- determine context: examine the time period in which a...

Teenagers are bombarded with information everyday and they need to know how to digest and analyze all of it! Because students better understand how to analyze and make arguments, they will leave these classes equipped to handle online conversations, fake news, and peer pressure.

There will be no homework assigned

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:Nearpod

55 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.

In class two we will look at primary sources from the Salem Witch Trials. One source is from a young girl who testifies that she has seen the devil. We discuss as a class if we believe her testimony or not.

Teacher

Taylor Wirthlin B.S. Social Studies Teaching

🇺🇸

Lives in the United States

Experienced History and Geography Teacher

95 total reviews

80 completed classes

About Me

Hi friends. I'm happy you have found my page! I am a certified social studies secondary education teacher in Utah and North Carolina. I have experience teaching 8th, 9th, 11th, and 12th grade in multiple subjects (my favorite is world history). I...