The Fact-Check Checklist: A one-page guide to teaching verification

Your students don't need a lecture on media bias, they need four habits they can actually use before they hit share.

The Fact-Check Checklist breaks real fact-checking down into four steps: reading laterally, going upstream to the source, checking their own emotional reaction, and knowing where to circle back when a trail goes cold. It's the same method professional fact-checkers use, just simplified for the classroom.

Print it for the classroom wall, hand it out before a media literacy lesson, or use it to open a form time discussion.