Cross-Check Your Sources

“Cross-checking” is when you verify that information is true using different sources

and search methods.(In other words, if you read something on one website, try to find the same information on

other websites to confirm that it is true!)

Cross-Check Your Sources: Activity

1. I will present you with “facts” from a website.

2. Verify that each fact is true by searching multiple online resources, or finding a very credible source that either confirms or disproves the information.

Cross-Check Your Sources: Activity

Open the “Cross-Checking Answer

Sheet” Now!

More people live in Bangladesh than in Russia.

#1

#2 The greatest predator of the Stegosaurus was the

Tyrannosaurus Rex.

#3 In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes

series, Sherlock often says “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

#4 None of the actors who played characters on the

television show "All My Children" had children.

#5 In Peru, it is considered unlucky to place a hat on a table.

#6 Shaking a Polaroid picture helps the image

develop faster.

#7 King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa

in his bathroom.

#8 You are more likely to get sick when the

weather is cold.