Source Triangulation — Who's Telling the Truth?
The teen picks a controversial topic, finds three sources with different perspectives, compares them for bias and reliability, and synthesizes a position that accounts for the complexity. This activity reveals information literacy, bias detection, and the ability to construct understanding from conflicting sources — the foundational skill of critical thinking in an information-saturated world.
Free to do together whenever you like.
What you'll need
Phone, laptop, or tablet needed for finding and reading sources. Give the teen a few minutes to choose a topic and find three sources. Good topics: social media regulation, AI in education, criminal justice reform, climate policy approaches, genetic engineering, any contested current event. The key is that the topic must have legitimate disagreement, not just fringe versus mainstream.
How it works
The 3-step guide, with what to look for at each step, is for signed-in parents.