Evaluating Sources

An attitude that favors some ideas or people over others.

• accuracy

• bias

• credibility

• verify

A _________ source comes from the past.

• contemporary

• historic

• excerpt

• verified

The quality of being trusted or believed in.

• credibility

• bias

• verify

• contemporary

A small piece of a larger work of writing, music, film or broadcast.

• contemporary

• historic

• excerpt

• perspective

To check for accuracy in a source, you can find the author's sources of information.

• true

• false

If a survey states that a large number of people agree that the Dallas Cowboys are the best football team in Texas, but the only people surveyed were in a Dallas Cowboys fan shop, the survey results can be considered...

• credible

• biased

• reliable

• accurate

How can you check that a website is trustworthy?

• Check the links the website has to other sources

• Check the facts with another website

• Research the author of the website

• All of the above

A reliable source is

• biased.
• trusted.
• promoting a product.
• google.

Which is the best source to determine: 

Who was present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

• Source 1: A hollywood movie about the American Revolution made 2001. 
• Source 2:
  A book written by a famous historian who is an expert on the American Revolution, published in 1999. 

to check or prove that something is accurate

• inform

• persuade

• evaluate

• verify