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Identifying High-Quality Sites Lesson PlanIdentifying High-Quality Sites Lesson Plan
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Common Sense Media
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6th - 8th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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1 day
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Project-Based Learning
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Identifying High-Quality Sites

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Use a Huffington Post article focused on false pictures of Hurricane Sandy to launch a discussion about the reliability of online information. Groups compare and contrast how print and broadcast media regulate data gathering with the lack of oversight for Internet posts. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

Research, the internet

Additional Tags

internet, internet research, quality websites, social studies

Pros

  • Includes activities that demonstrate how much unreliable information is on the Internet, how to look for facts when researching, and how to find quality sites

Cons

  • The link to the original article is broken; search for another version online or use a different article with the same message

Common Core

RI.6.2 RI.6.3 RI.6.7 RI.6.8 RI.7.2 RI.7.3 RI.7.8 RI.7.10 RI.8.2 RI.8.8 RI.8.10 SL.6.1.a SL.6.1.b SL.6.1.c SL.6.1.d SL.6.2 SL.6.5 SL.6.6 SL.7.1.a SL.7.1.b SL.7.1.c SL.7.1.d SL.7.2 SL.7.5 SL.7.6 SL.8.1.a SL.8.1.b SL.8.1.c SL.8.1.d SL.8.2 SL.8.5 SL.8.6 L.6.6 L.7.6 L.8.6

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