UNIV 112 Resources for Faculty

This lesson plan, which will take about 30-45 minutes, covers refining research questions, finding background information, searching with the VCU Libraries Search (gold box), and keyword development. You can *make a copy* and adapt it for your class's needs.

A very simple 20-30 minute activity with worksheet included that will guide your students toward finding a scholarly article, book, substantive article, and news article on their topic. You can *make a copy* and adapt as you see fit.

This very comprehensive slide deck (27 slides) covers everything from why we evaluate, to source evaluation tools and mnemonics, to misinformation and "fake news". Please be sure to *make a copy* so that you can edit, remove, or add slides as you see fit.

Video presentation of the Evaluating Resources and Information slide deck.

This is the same video as above, but with assessment questions incorporated throughout. Please encourage your students to watch the video and answer the questions so that VCU Librarians can improve our instruction on this topic.

This activity, which takes 15-25 minutes, asks students to consider what *type* of information should be used for different research scenarios. You can *make a copy* and edit this activity. Keep in mind that the activity is paired with the Research Sources Chart below.

This 40 minute activity focuses solely on news sources and asks students to compare multiple sources on the same issue across the political spectrum.

A basic worksheet that guides your students through evaluating their sources. Each worksheet is meant to focus on *one* resource.