Description
- Overview:
- Students learn how to authenticate online information by comparing "facts" from the website entitled "All About Explorers" with more authoritative sources. (This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teachers students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony, and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music videos and movies.)
- Subject:
- Business, Finance and Information Technology Education
- Level:
- Middle School
- Grades:
- Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 6
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Time Required:
- Multiday
- Author:
- MediaSmarts
- Provider:
- MediaSmarts
- Date Added:
- 02/26/2019
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML
- Interactivity Type:
- Mixed
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Standard Alignment: Partial alignment by covering only the Digital Literacy standard and should be considered as part of a unit that would address the standard.
Evidence of Student Objective: Has clear learning objectives that are achievable through completion of this resource.
Assessment: No assessment strategies have been indicated in the resource, so users should plan to add some type of assessment
Strengths: Gives several opportunities for students to practice in a safe setting the evaluation of website reliability. Additional lesson strength is that it utilizes high interest topics.
Weakness: The websites have quite a bit of additional advertisements on them. This additional piece could be distracting for some students.