The document discusses the importance of cross-checking information from different sources to validate facts. It provides an activity where the reader is given 8 statements and must verify whether each one is true or false by searching multiple online resources or finding a credible source. Cross-checking involves using different search methods and sources to confirm the accuracy of information found on any single site.

1. 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!)

2. 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.

3. Cross-Check Your Sources:
Activity
Open the “Cross-
Checking Answer
Sheet” Now!

4. More people live in
Bangladesh than in Russia.
#1

5. #2
The greatest predator
of the Stegosaurus was the
Tyrannosaurus Rex.

6. #3 In Arthur Conan
Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
series, Sherlock often says
“Elementary, my dear Watson.”

7. #4 None of the actors
who played characters on the
television show "All My
Children" had children.

8. #5 In Peru, it is
considered unlucky to
place a hat on a table.

9. #6 Shaking a Polaroid
picture helps the image
develop faster.

10. #7 King Francis I of
France hung the Mona Lisa
in his bathroom.

11. #8 You are more likely
to get sick when the
weather is cold.