Dawn Egan-Media Resource Specialist
 
Introduction | Standards | Objectives | Activities | Assessment | Results | Resources
Introduction
Students will begin by learning searching techniques to target one web site. Students will learn how to critically evaluate Web pages for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias and usability. The students will focus on one web site to present their findings, whether positive or negative.

          Subject: Computer Operations/Computer Literacy
          Topic: Information Literacy
          Grade Level: 9-12
          Student Lesson name and URL: Student Site

Standards Addressed
          STANDARD 1:   Challenge Standards for Business Career Paths: 
                                       Computer Science and Information Systems. 

Students will understand information processing concepts necessary to gather, create, and analyze data. They will perform multiple tasks required to process data effectively and produce usable information.  Challenge Standards

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Instructional Objectives
  1. Given a list of student-developed topics, students will use search engines, (i.e. AltaVista, Lycos and Yahoo) to gather relevant web sites. 
  2. From the list of web sites students will choose one site to evaluate.
  3. Students will be able to identify the criteria used when analyzing a web site after reading Kathy Schrock's "The ABC's of Web Site Evaluation".
  4. Students will critique their identified site based on the web evaluation criteria and complete Kathy Schrock's Evaluation Survey for that site.
  5. Students will create a multimedia presentation (Power Point and/or Internet) using the results of their web site evaluation survey and present it to an audience of peers.
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Student Activities

Introductory Activity
Students will watch the 60 minute video clip, followed by a discussion on the validy of information on the Internet. Students will complete the pre-analysis worksheet to begin thinking about the topic they will use in their web page search and how they will begin to search. 

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Enabling Activities)
Students will locate specific web sites by completing a tutorial on boolean search skills. (search tutorial) NOTES Students will need to know the format of their presentation, how to use the multimedia needed and the evaluation process.
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Culminating Activity
Students will defend their evaluation on the selected web site by creating a multimedia presentation and delivering the presentation in class. 
 
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Assessment
Insert your grading rubric for the culminating activity or a link to your rubric or test document file.

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Results
After implementing your lesson (sometime between January & March), insert a chart of your pre-test, post-test, and culminating assessment data.
 
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Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

Introductory Activity
Pre-analysis worksheet to help students select their topic.

Enabling Activity
List 

Culminating Activity
PowerPoint tutorial, PDFs 


 

 
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Lassen High School
Susanville, CA 96130
Dawn Egan - lassenhs@psln.com               
Last Revised: 06/16/2000