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FactCheckED.org is a website set up for educators as a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. It aims to help students learn to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to finding facts and understanding spin.

This is no small feat! This great site offers several lesson plans that could prove useful in helping students develop their critical thinking skills. I happen to like the ones titled "Building a Better Argument," "The Credibility Challenge: In Search of Authority on the Internet," "The Language of Deception," and "Monthy Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy."

I'm sure that many educators will be able to find ready-to-use classroom resources on this site. Check it out for yourself!