Summarizing web evaluation
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The document provides a lesson plan for critically evaluating information found on web pages in grades 6-8. It uses the format from Margaret Wise Brown's book "The Important Book" as a model for summarizing the key points in 3 sentences or less with an introductory fact, supporting facts, and restating the most important fact. The lesson teaches students to question the reliability of information on web pages.
Summarizing web evaluation
- 1. Kathy Schrock’s Internet Curriculum CRITICAL EVALUATION OF A WEB PAGE LESSON PLAN: GRADES 6-8 Created by Kathy Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net) April 25, 2002 THE IMPORTANT BOOK: SUMMARIZING WORKSHEET The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown was written in 1949, and is still in print today! The important thing about rain is that it is wet. It contains eleven short essays all written in the same style, with an introductory fact, other supporting facts, and a repeat of the most important first fact. An It falls out of the sky, example from the book reads like this: and it sounds like rain, and makes things shiny, and it does not taste like anything, and is the color of air. Brown, Margaret Wise. The important book. Harper Trophy, 1977. ISBN: 0064432270 But the most important thing about rain is that it is wet. WEB PAGE EVALUATION Using this same format, summarize the reasons for taking the time to critically evaluate information found on a Web page. The important thing about the critical evaluation of Web page information is: It and and and But the most important thing about the critical evaluation of Web information is: