Summary:
After watching the scene, Visit to Walmart, students interact with media sources as they research the availability of guns. Different stations are set up in the classroom with laptops, a local newspaper, a sportsman magazine, and an Uncle Henrys catalog.
Scenario:
Congratulations Private Investigators, your team has been hired by the top law enforcement agency in the world to search through the World Wide Web and print sources to locate firearms in your geographic area.  We need to round up supplies to send them all to the biggest landfill in the world because of a recall on all existing arms. They could be dangerous to anyone using them, so we need to act as quickly as possible. Because they are for sale, the owners will need to be compensated. You will have a budget of 10,000.00 to purchase firearms and supplies.

Lesson 2.
Red Alert, Dangerous Weapons Recall, Investigators Needed!

Objectives:

• Teaming and Collaboration- Students work together to solve a specific problem
• Reads, listens to and interprets messages from multiple sources
• Uses technology in accessing and recoding information

Procedure:
1. In cooperative groups of 4 students form Private detective teams.
     Each student will assume a role

• Reader of gun ads (also keeps track of time)
• Recorder of information on a budget spreadsheet (laptop)
• Online researcher (laptop)
• Summarizer-one who creates a final summary for reporting out to whole class (laptop)

2. Each group receives a card clearly stating the mission. They will have 30 minutes to complete the task.

3. Students look through the materials at their station and give the recorder the names of the items to purchase and the price of each item.
The online researcher saves each site that offers materials for sale and passes on the prices to the recorder.

Noteshare would be a perfect program for this task. Each member looking for information and recording results contribute to a group Notebook shared by the Summarizer. The researcher could use the meta search features of Noteshare when conducting online searches. The recorder of information can use the chart plug-in for recording data collected by the group.
4. After compiling information and the reader reporting out to the group members, they discuss their findings and together create the summary that will be shared with the whole class.

Materials
Newspaper
Sportsman magazine
Laptops (spreadsheet, online websites, Noteshare Notebook or word processing program)
Uncle Henry booklet

Processing:
At the end of the activity have each group report out to the whole class. Have students compare the results of their research. Record the findings of each group on the board. Conduct a class discussion on the results. Make sure to point out the ease at which a person can purchase a firearm from a want ad or from an advertising book such as Uncle Henrys and how only a licensed gun dealer need conduct a background check. Give students a chance to also process the success or difficulties within the cooperative groups in regards to interpersonal communication and individual group member actions.