Unit Plan: Navigating the World of Online (Mis)Information (6-7)
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This unit plan overview provides links to all lessons along with links to accompanying teacher support materials that include:
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Literacy-building activities with answer guides
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Inquiry activities (support materials are provided as needed)
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Navigating the World of Online (Mis)Information (6-7) lessons and links to resources are listed below.
Online lessons have audio and interactive activities. Suggested grade level is indicated for each.
Download worksheets and make available to your students:
- Lesson 1: DMHO - A Deadly Substance (approx. 15 mins)
- Literacy Builder-Vocab Terms 1 (approx. 10 mins)
- Lesson 2: How Do We Know Things About the World? (approx. 25 mins)
- Literacy Builder-Vocab Terms 2 (approx 15 mins)
- NOTE here are two similar activities related to identifying communal types of expertise/knowledge.
- Inquiry Activity What Expertise Is Needed To Make a Simple Object? V1 (approx. 20 mins)
- Inquiry Activity Creating a Communal Web of Knowledge V2 (approx. 15 mins)
- Lesson 3: How Misinformation Can Feel True (approx. 20 mins)
- Literacy Builder-Vocab Terms 3 (approx 15 mins)
- Inquiry Activity Headlines and Our Feelings
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