Who's Behind the Curtain?

HOW TO As you focus in on the question of authorship, it can be interesting to revisit some of the fact-finding races described before. Perhaps your students already discovered that, when racing to find an answer to a supposedly factual question, different groups came up with different answers. You can introduce a new game at this point-we will call it "Says Who?" This time, send the students off with a new series of questions. For example: What is the most popular American sport? How much activity do you need in a day to stay healthy? How old is the earth? Have them return not only with an answer to the question but also with the background information on the "authority" from whom they received this answer.