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Grades 6-12
Time: About 40 minutes
Introduction:
In this lesson, students (with partners) will learn to judge information on a
web site based on the URL
Outcomes:
- Students will understand specific language of a URL
- Students will develop analytical skills as they examine specific sites
to determine relevance and reliability of information
Suggested Procedure:
There are a number of good lessons regarding website evaluation on this
site. Click on For Teachers and you can preview them.
For this lesson we will focus on the lesson called -Where exactly am I, anyway?
Even
though this lesson is not based on gun control, students will learn very basic
skills that they can transfer to any topic that they are studying.
Direct Instruction:
Go over vocabulary relating to web addresses. Refer to the teacher guide sheet
on reading web addresses. Write
the terms on the board as you explain the meanings for:
URL-Universal Resource Locator
Domain name
Extension
Personal web pages-Go over the keys to detecting personal pages
Pass out a chart that includes the extensions that they need to know
Assignment- http://allaboutexplorers.com/teachers/lesson4.html Where
Exactly Am I Anyway?
(This is an exemplary assignment written
by teachers. )
- Explain to the students that you will be giving them
an assignment that will involve understanding the language of a URL as they visit
a number of websites. Break them into partners. Tell them you will be collecting
the work sheet and the students will be receiving an effort grade on the assignment. Monitor
the groups and gravitate to those you feel need more help (those with less
developed analytical skills) When the activity is done, go over the answers
getting responses from as many partner sets as possible.
- Worksheet to fill out (one per set of partners).
- 1 chart including extensions of a domain name.
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