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Evaluating Websites Lesson Plans

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students how to evaluate websites. It begins with learning objectives and standards for evaluating information sources. Students will learn the R.E.A.L. method for website evaluation, which considers reliability, expertise, authority, and legitimacy. Through a warm-up discussion, video, and guided practice, students will apply the R.E.A.L. method to evaluate sample websites. They will then work in groups to evaluate assigned websites and present their findings on credibility. The lesson aims to teach students the importance of critically evaluating online information sources.

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Evaluating Websites Lesson Plans

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students how to evaluate websites. It begins with learning objectives and standards for evaluating information sources. Students will learn the R.E.A.L. method for website evaluation, which considers reliability, expertise, authority, and legitimacy. Through a warm-up discussion, video, and guided practice, students will apply the R.E.A.L. method to evaluate sample websites. They will then work in groups to evaluate assigned websites and present their findings on credibility. The lesson aims to teach students the importance of critically evaluating online information sources.

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Evaluating Websites

Estimated time: 45 minutes

AASL

I.A.2. Learners display curiosity and initiative by: Recalling prior and background
knowledge as context for new meaning.
I.D.1. Learners participate in an ongoing inquiry-based process by: Continually
seeking knowledge.
I.D.3. Learners participate in an ongoing inquiry-based process by: Enacting new
understanding through real-world connections.
I.D.4. Learners participate in an ongoing inquiry-based process by: Using reflection
to guide informed decisions.
IV.A.3. Learners act on an information need by: Making critical choices about
information sources to use.
VI.A.3. Learners follow ethical and legal guidelines for gathering and using
information by: Evaluating information for accuracy, validity, social and cultural
context, and appropriateness for need.

Essential Questions
 Why is it important to evaluate websites when doing research?
 What is the R.E.A.L. method?

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to...
 evaluate the quality of websites.

Materials
 Promethean Board
 Projector
 PowerPoint: Evaluating Websites
 Handout 1: The R.E.A.L. Method
 Handout 2: Group Assignment
 Pencils
 Laptops
Warm-up

Media specialist will ask the following question:

 How do you decide which websites to use for your research?

The media specialist will then ask students to raise their hand if the statements
below apply to them:
 I would use the first ones that come up on the results page.
 I would use the site my friends/parents/teachers told me to use.

She will inform the students that not all websites are credible. The media specialist
will explain to students that the R.E.A.L. method can be used to determine if a
website is credible.

Teach

Students will view the video entitled Evaluating Websites. After the video, the
media specialist will distribute the handout entitled The R.E.A.L. Method. She will
ask students to read the handout silently. After students read the handout, the
media specialist will the discuss handout.

Media specialist will log on to the Internet and enter the following URL:
www.earthsendangered.com. She will inform the students that they will use the
R.E.A.L. method to evaluate the website entitled Earth’s Endangered Creatures
with her guidance.

After completing the guided practice, the media specialist will place the students in
groups and distribute handout entitled Group Assignment. Each group will be
assigned one of the following websites to evaluate.

 Group 1: Endangered Earth


o www.endangeredearth.com/
 Group 2: Save the Rennets
o www.savetherennets.com/
 Group 3: Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
o http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
 Group 4: The Jackalope Conspiracy
o www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm

After evaluating the assigned website, each group will share if their assigned
website is credible or it’s a hoax.
Closing

The media specialist will ask the following questions:

 Why is it important to evaluate websites when doing research?


 What is the R.E.A.L. method?

www.earthsendangered.com/

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