Georgia 8.T.C.2.d
The Standard
Use a variety of credible sources to research the answers to questions on academic and individual topics of interest. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Context
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students turn a broad topic into a focused question, then search across more than one kind of trustworthy source. They evaluate each source and combine useful evidence into an answer.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why a source is trustworthy by checking its author, publisher, date, evidence, and purpose. The student combines relevant information from different sources into a clear answer.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often treat the first search result, a polished website, or a popular post as automatically reliable. They may use several pages that repeat one original source, or collect facts without connecting them to the research question.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Answer, “How does screen use before bed affect teen sleep?” Use one government or university source and one database or news source. List both titles, one fact from each, and a two-sentence answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs six printed source cards to sort into use, check, or avoid, then label the evidence behind each choice.
Ask students to write which matters most when judging a source: author, date, publisher, evidence, or purpose, then defend their choice.
Run a source credibility relay where teams inspect sample webpages and earn points for spotting authorship, evidence, bias, and publication dates.
Have students research a school issue, such as lunch waste, using a district document, a local news report, and an expert source.
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