Subjects
Grade
Brief Description
Students learn the six criteria for evaluating Web sites and then use those criteria to locate three sites that provide good information and three that do not.
Objectives
Students will
Keywords
Internet research, Web site evaluation, information literacy
Lesson Plan
To prepare for this lesson, review the Education World techtorial Improving Media Literacy, which explains the six criteria for evaluating a Web site: coverage, objectivity, currency, origin, accuracy, and purpose. You might want to use the techtorial as the basis for your opening discussion of this activity with students.
Begin the lesson by asking students if they think everything on the Internet is accurate. Ask them to share how they decide whether information on the Web is accurate. You might want to display Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and ask students to evaluate the site based on their own criteria.
Then, walk students through the six criteria in Improving Media Literacy. Encourage students to take notes, or have a handout available to them. (A printed version of the techtorial is available.)
Ask students to choose an appropriate -- and fun -- topic (such as skateboarding), or assign a topic to them. Then have them (working individually or with a partner):
Assessment
Students will be evaluated onLesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Lorrie Jackson
National Standards
TECHNOLOGY
GRADES K - 12
NT.K-12.2 Social, Ethical, and Human Issues
NT.K-12.5 Technology Research tools
NT.K-12.6 Technology Problem-Solving and Decision-Making tools
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