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WorksheetsCRAAP concepts (credibility of a source)
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which of the following is an acronym that helps us remember what questions we should ask about a source before we use it to answer our inquiry question?
CREPE
PARKA
CRAAP
CAARP
Which of the following questions are the best questions to ask if you're trying to determine whether a source is current?
When was it written? Has anything changed since then?
Why did the author write this? Are they trying to inform or persuade? Is the author biased for or against a group of people?
Is this source giving facts or opinions? Are those facts corroborated by any other sources (are other experts saying the same thing)?
Does this source discuss the same topics that my inquiry question is about?
Does the author really know what they're talking about? What are their qualifications or credentials?
Which of the following questions are the best questions to ask if you're trying to determine whether a source is relevant?
When was it written? Has anything changed since then?
Why did the author write this? Are they trying to inform or persuade? Is the author biased for or against a group of people?
Is this source giving facts or opinions? Are those facts corroborated by any other sources (are other experts saying the same thing)?
Does this source discuss the same topics that my inquiry question is about?
Does the author really know what they're talking about? What are their qualifications or credentials?
Which of the following questions are the best questions to ask if you're trying to determine whether a source has authority on the topics we want to know about?
When was it written? Has anything changed since then?
Why did the author write this? Are they trying to inform or persuade? Is the author biased for or against a group of people?
Is this source giving facts or opinions? Are those facts corroborated by any other sources (are other experts saying the same thing)?
Does this source discuss the same topics that my inquiry question is about?
Does the author really know what they're talking about? What are their qualifications or credentials?
Which of the following questions are the best questions to ask if you're trying to determine whether a source has accurate information?
When was it written? Has anything changed since then?
Why did the author write this? Are they trying to inform or persuade? Is the author biased for or against a group of people?
Is this source giving facts or opinions? Are those facts corroborated by any other sources (are other experts saying the same thing)?
Does this source discuss the same topics that my inquiry question is about?
Does the author really know what they're talking about? What are their qualifications or credentials?
Which of the following questions are the best questions to ask if you're trying to determine what purpose the author had for writing?
When was it written? Has anything changed since then?
Why did the author write this? Are they trying to inform or persuade? Is the author biased for or against a group of people?
Is this source giving facts or opinions? Are those facts corroborated by any other sources (are other experts saying the same thing)?
Does this source discuss the same topics that my inquiry question is about?
Does the author really know what they're talking about? What are their qualifications or credentials?
What is the best answer to the question: What is social studies?
Learning about history
Learning about people
Learning about government
Learning about maps
What is the best answer to the question: What is an inquiry?
Gathering information to ask a question
Doing schoolwork
Repeating the answers the teacher gives me
Participating in a mock trial
What is an immigrant?
A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another country
A person without papers who leaves one country to settle permanently in another country
A person who leaves one country to live in another country temporarily
An illegal alien
A website is biased when:
it doesn't tell the whole story
it is trying to convince you to take a side
it contains opinion instead of fact and is biased and not impartial
all of the above
A web URL that ends with ".gov" means that the website is associated with what?
a company
a school
a government agency
a charitable organization
Which of the following is a way to check a website's authority/author
Look to see if the author has credentials posted on the site
Google the author to find if they have other publications
Look to see if the author has posted their contact information or the organization they work for
All of the above
