Evaluating+Web+Content

=8th Grade Lesson= =Evaluating Web Content=


 * Overview ** : This lesson will teach students what to look for in a web page in order to evaluate content for authority and reliability.

Students need to know how to evaluate the accuracy of the info as well as the reliability of the author.
 * Purpose ** : It is important for educators to teach students to critically evaluate web content. Finding information on the Internet is not enough.

**Time:** 2 class periods


 * Resources Used: **
 * [[image:can_you_trust_the_web.png width="210" height="152" link="@http://www.slideshare.net/lgrasso/can-you-trusttheweb"]] || **<--Slideshare teacher presentation ** ||
 * media type="youtube" key="_8yKNJCTck4" height="138" width="183"

|| **<---video on Do You trust wikipedia** ||
 * **Questions To Ask** **??????** || Who is the Author? - online lesson ||
 * ** Quiz- Evaluating Web Content** ||
 * Enrichment--> || Practice Your Web Evaluation Skill ||


 * Activities ** :
 * Spend several minutes asking students how they search for information on the web.
 * do you use more than just Google and wikipedia?
 * talk about the pluses and minuses of wikipedia?
 * minus - You Tube video (above)
 * plus - featured content articles
 * how do you know what info on the Internet is correct?
 * how do you know what authors to trust?


 * Show teacher powerpoint entitled "Do you Trust the Web"?
 * use examples of your own to elaborate


 * Allow students to pick a partner to collaborate
 * one person reads the "Questions to Ask" article
 * the other skims through "Who is the Author"? website
 * **ACTION** : partners work together on Quiz, "Evaluating Web Content"
 * note: they can download it or teacher can have paper copies of quiz available

** Further ideas ** :
 * Students can work on enrichment web-based activity if they do not do well on quiz