Grade 4 · Reading · Lesson 20

Evaluate Online Sources

Not every website tells the truth. Some online sources are written by experts and checked by editors. Others are written by anyone without checking the facts. Learning to evaluate a source — before using it in your research — protects you from spreading misinformation.

What this lesson teaches

1Identify clues that make an online source reliable or unreliable
2Distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources
3Apply the SIFT method to evaluate a new source

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