Here are popular online resources to teach about news sources for kids (click here for updates to this list):
- Allsides (news stories compared across multiple political perspectives)
- Breaking News–from Class Tools, create your own screen
- BBC News (app)
- C News for kids
- Kids News – Current Events
- Listenwise
- Newsela–news for kids, reformatted at different reading levels
- News-o-matic for kids (app)
- NewseumEd
- News for Kids–free
- Newspaper Navigator–from the Library of Congress; search endless newspapers
- PBS Newshour Extra–for grades 7-12
- Scholastic
- TeachingKidsNews
- TweenTribune–by Smithsonian
- US News Map–the news headlines between 1789 and 1922
- Youngzine
- Youth Radio
- Yummy Math—math news
Fake News (click for resources)
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.