Mary+Peters

District Inservice Plan || Subject area: English Grade level: High School Time frame: One to Two Class Periods Lesson title: Evaluation of Websites || What are on-line databases? Why can using on-line databases be more effective than using the internet? ||
 * email address: Mary.Peters@k12.sd.us
 * ** Technology Integration Unit/Lesson Plan Template ** (modified from MTS Lesson Plan Template) ||
 * Name: Mary Peters
 * ** Brief lesson/unit Summary/Description ** ||
 * Students will be put into groups of two and each group will be given two websites to look at. Students will look at two different websites and be able to evaluate them based on the criteria that the websites give. They will base them on accuracy, authority, objectivity, and currency. At the end of the activity students will determine which website they would use based on the above criteria. This also shows students how some websites are not valuable or accurate and how they need to take a good look at a website before using **it.** ||
 * ** Essential Questions to guide this unit/lesson and focus teaching and learning: ** ||
 * How valuable is the information you are getting from goggle or other search engines that you are using?
 * ** State Content Standard/Benchmark addressed [] ** ||
 * ** Benchmark D: ** Provide readers’ advisory services.
 * Indicator 1: ** Promote the school library as a gateway to additional reading materials and information networks . ||
 * ** State Educational Technology Standard/Benchmark addressed [] ** ||
 * __Ninth-Twelfth Grade__

Information Literacy and Decision Making N ature, Concepts, and Systems || Information, Media and Technology Skills Students will learn how to evaluate and determine if a website is valuable. ||
 * Indicator 2: Students determine the reliability and relevancy of information.
 * Students analyze the relationships and connections between technologies in different fields of study and how they apply to communities.
 * ** 21st Century Skill(s)/Theme(s) addressed (see excel spreadsheet) ** ||
 * Learning and Innovation Skills
 * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving __ 2.CTP.4 __ Frame, analyze and synthesize information in order to solve problems and answer questions
 * Information Literacy 3.ML.1 Understand how media messages are constucted, for what purpose, and using which tools, characteristics and conventions. ||
 * ** Students will understand (lesson/unit objectives): ** ||
 * Students will understand that not everything available on the web is valuable or accurate.
 * ** Technology & Web 2.0 resources needed (hardware and software, websites) ** ||
 * Lincoln Library Portal Page to access databases

Websites Used by Student for Evaluation

Group 1 Group 2 · Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project o [] · Martin Luther King, Jr. A true historical examination o []
 * [|Dihydrogen Monoxide]
 * []
 * [|Foresight Nanotech Institute]
 * []

Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 o []
 * [|McWhortle Enterprises, Inc.]
 * http://www.mcwhortle.com/
 * [|Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.]
 * http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
 * [|Alcohol Alert: Animal Models in Alcohol Research]
 * http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa24.htm
 * [|Feline Reactions to Bearded Man]
 * http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
 * Gender and Aids

o http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm || I will show students an example of two different websites and compare and contrast them for the students. I will go through the accuracy, authority, objectivity, and currency of both sites. By showing them the sites they will see how any one can go out there and create a website and put whatever they want on it, and that not all websites are valuable and they can not judge them by the way they are listed**.** I talk about how website may be valuable, but why they may want to check databases first and how they are rvaluable. || Discussion ||
 * AIDS FACTS
 * ** Procedure (learning activities)/ lessons of unit ** ||
 * I so this project with the junior composition class, before they start research their reserach project. I come into the composition teachers classroom and discuss with students the value of on-line databases vs using google and other search engines. I will explain what on-line databases are and the ones that are available to them for their use.

Metaphor & Simile ||

Storytelling ||
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Mnemonic Device ||

Technology ||
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Project-Based Instruction ||

Work Study || Humor || Reciprocal Teaching



Writing || Manipulative ||

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Other: Questioning ||
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 * ** Describe application of above strategy or strategies below ** ||
 * ** How do you determine whether or not you will use the website that you found? **
 * How do you determine if the website is a good site? A Bad Site? **
 * Will you change you methods of determining a website for used based on the information given today and why? ** ||
 * ** Assessment Method/s and description ** ||
 * Students will be put into pairs and given two websites to evaluate. Then they will fill out the sheet they are given to determine which website is more valuable. ||
 * ** Resource List ** ||
 * ** Notes: //(this area may list accommodations, differentiation, as well as other key information that may not fit into the categories above)// ** ||
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