>Hi Shannon, I don't know that I have the best thing out there but our tech >facilitators created an activity for us based on a civil rights study aimed at >teaching web site evaluation. They gave us a series of questions and 5 civil >rights sites to go to. After scoring each of the sites the students then >chose the 3 best sites for valid research. I am on spring break, but next >week I can e-mail you the sheet. If you go to my school site you can see the >links to the 5 sites. There are obvious weaknesses in a couple of them for >kids to notice...Ex. the author is a 5th grader. I will say that it took a 2 day lesson to do it well. I had to model the complete set of questions with one site to show them that you have to be willing to skim and scan and scroll all over the site to evaluate it. Gina Ps go to hms.leanderisd.org campus staff Gina Alligood Links...scroll to the bottom _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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