Education Standards
K-6th scope & sequence
Evaluating Resources- grade 3
Overview
Students will look at two websites for services for dogs to try to determine which one is the fake site. Discuss why someone might create fake websites and how to spot a fake website.
Lesson Title: Evaluating Resources
Overview
Students will look at two websites for services for dogs to try to determine which one is the fake site. Discuss why someone might create fake websites and how to spot a fake website.
Grade
Third Grade
Duration
2 – 20-minute lessons
Standards and Learning Objectives
Washington State Ed Tech Standards:
3.b. With guidance from an educator, students become familiar with age-appropriate criteria for evaluating digital content.
Washington State ELA Standards:
W.6. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
W.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Formative Assessment
Teacher will observe the discussion and make adjustments to student understanding as needed.
Lesson One – Evaluating Websites
Materials
- YouTube videos –
- DQ Citizens: True Vs. False Information https://youtu.be/FljfPivYxtU (3:18 minutes)
- Zack King How to Change Your Shirt https://youtu.be/DLcKDq5FpFk (27 seconds)
- Zack King How to Hitchhike https://youtu.be/TttDafkNzWA (13 seconds)
- Websites
- Burmese Mountain Dog http://burmesemountaindog.info/
- The Jackalope Conspiracy http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
- Slips of paper for the exit question.
- Smartboard or similar to share videos and website
Background
The internet is full of real websites and information but how do you decide what is real and what is fake?
Procedure
Step 1
Show students the YouTube videos from Zach King.
- Zack King How to Change Your Shirt https://youtu.be/DLcKDq5FpFk
- Zack King How to Hitchhike https://youtu.be/TttDafkNzWA
Why might someone create videos like this?
Step 2
Have students watch the video DQ Citizens: True Vs. False Information. Talk about what to look for in a trust worth website according to the video.
- Double check facts on a trustworthy site (Sites from Government, Universities and Major News and Fact Checking sites)
- Define HOAX – when someone is trying to trick you.
- Find multiple sources.
- Verify facts with the terms – HOAX, FAKE, FALSE
Step 3
Visit the Burmese Mountain Dog website
Use the strategies from the DQ citizens video to figure out of the website is real or not.
Would you use this website for a reliable source? Why or why not?
Step 4
Visit the Jackalope Conspiracy website
Use the same strategies from the DQ citizens video to figure out if the website is real or not
Would you use this website for a reliable source? Why or why not?
Step 5
Exit slip –
What is a HOAX?
What should you look for the make sure a site is trustworthy?
Lesson Two – What is a Search Engine?
Materials
- Teacher computer with Google on the Smartboard
- Slips of paper for the exit question.
- Smartboard or similar to share websites
Background
Procedure
Step 1
Show students Google, Bing or Edge on the Smartboard and ask them to tell you what they know about these sites.
Step 2
Tell students that you need to look up some information on gardens because you are thinking about planting a garden in your yard. Ask them what you should do.
Step 3
Enter GARDENS into the search box and ask students to identify what happened and what they notice. You can point out that the address bar can act as a search bar also.
Step 4
Identify that they aren’t actually getting any information from a site like Google, Bing or Edge, because they are all SEARCH ENGINES. A search engine is a tool that sifts through all the websites and searches for possible matches to your topic. Search engines find the information for you. Your next step is to look through the suggested websites to find the information that you want or need.
Discuss the different types of matches –
- Ads and sponsored results
- Websites
- Images
- Maps
Step 5
Identify the different suffixes they may encounter
http://www. .com – commerce site or commercial site – proceed with caution
http://www. .gov – government site – very reliable
http://www. .edu – education site, affiliated with an educational institution – very reliable
http://www. .org – organization – proceed with caution
Examine the websites by looking at the suffixes to decide which might be useful to start with.
Step 6
Exit slip – identify one URL suffix and what it means.