Digital Citizenship: Judging Information Online

Cycle 3

TITLE: Digital Citizenship: Judging Information Online

LESSON
PLAN
MELS
Competencies

Objective(s)

DATE: Thursday September 24th, 2015

TIME: 12:47 1:32 pm

CLASS: Rooms 13 and 14

DURATION: 40 minutes

SCHOOL: cole Hampstead

Cross-Curricular Competencies:
Competency 3: Exercises critical judgment.
Students will practice using critical judgment while looking
at research into the mysterious Pacific Northwest Tree
Octopus. They will judge the information the internet
presents them with to come to a decision about the validity
of a website, and will experience how critically judging
information by comparing it with other sources is an
essential part of online research.
Competency 6: Uses information and communications
technology.
Students will use iPads to participate in an online quiz.
Students will use information gathered online to learn about
judging information for its validity.
Competency 8: To cooperate with others.
Students will work together as a member of a team to
complete an online quiz, to explore research materials, and
to come to a group decision in responding to a question.
Students will analyze research on the internet and explore
how they can determine what is not true and what is factual
online.
Students will be able to identify steps to take to ensure the
validity of information online.

Group size,
Location,
Materials

Group size: Rooms 13 and 14, consisting of about forty

students.
Location: Room 13, a large classroom with a smart board,
where the desks are arranged in desk groups of four to five.
Materials:
- House hippo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=TNbw-qycyl4
- True or False Kahoot: https://play.kahoot.it/#/?
quizId=b3c383f8-e9c0-48db-8c32-480199a3832f
- Detecting Lies and Staying True video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXFbQKz3anw

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- Tree Octopus Research pages: from the site
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/; from a Google image
search; from a Google web search; and from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octop
us (~10 of each)
- Group handout: Tree Octopus Real or Fake? (~10)
- Exit ticket with question (~40)
- Student iPads (at least 8-10)

TIME

LESSON
*** Remind students of the attention-getter: When I need to get students
attention I will say, If you can hear me clap once. When students hear
this they know to be quiet, and clap along so I know they are ready to
listen. ***

Introduction:
1 minute

1 minute

5 minutes

Welcome students back to the class, and tell them that this is the
last digital citizenship lesson they will be having together. Ask:
First of all, who can tell me what a digital citizen is?
Who can remind us what we talked about in our previous digital
citizenship classes? Responsibilities of a digital citizen, safety
and privacy online.

Today we will be talking about something new. To start, Id like to

show you this interesting video I found online: play House Hippo
video. *Pause at 0:50.
Open up a discussion to find out what students think about this
video. Say something like: What do you think of this video? Have
you ever seen a house hippo before? Some students will hopefully
say that they think it isnt real (if not, prompt by saying: I was
confused when I watched this video, do you think house hippos
are real?), to those they pick up on it being fake, ask: Did you
realize right away it was fake? Were you confused?
Point out how realistic the video seems it seems very
professional, very serious, like it was made to teach us something.

Development:

This will lead to the idea that not everything you see online is
true. Tell the students that just because they read something
online, or see a video on the Internet, it does not mean it must be
fact/true. Just like people can lie and make up stories in real life,
people can do so on the Internet. (Can give a real life example:
Elena, if I came up to you one morning and told you that there

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were mini hippos that live in your house and come out at night,
would you believe me?)
So, if not everything we see online can be trusted, we need to
learn how to judge what we see to come to a decision on whether
it is true or not.
1 minute

3-4
minutes

We are going to watch a video that gives you some tips on

detecting lies online everyone should pay close attention we
will be having a Kahoot quiz after! Play Detecting Lies video.
*Pause at 1:05.
The video said to be a skeptic: What does skeptic mean, what
does it mean to be a skeptic? To question or doubt things. So
the video said we should be careful not to trust something just
because it looks very professional or very cool. What is something
else to video told us? Check the source; compare information
with 3 other sources.
So keep everything in mind that you just learned in the video, as
we are going to do a Kahoot!

2 minutes

2 minutes

12
minutes

Set students up on iPads: Ask those students who have their

iPad with Wi-Fi to raise their hands (most grade 6 students).
Those students who do not (most grade 5 students) will either (a)
be given a school iPad to use, or (b) be grouped with a grade 6
student sitting close to them. Allow about 2 minutes for the
students to get organized into groups enlist the help of CTs
and CCWs in ensuring all students are grouped, and are sat
close so they can talk.
Instruct students to go to https://kahoot.it/#/ where they will
enter the game PIN (will be on Smart board). Students must
choose a display name: either their first name, their name and last
initial, or a screen name it must be something original so that we
can recognize who is who. Allow about 2 minutes for the
students to get set up. Most grade 6 students should have done
this before, and the teachers will be able to help.
Go through the Kahoot, students have 60 seconds to answer, and
should be discussing together. After each question choose a
pairing/group to share why they chose true or false, and explain
any that students are getting wrong.

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Conclusion/Transition:
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Before we go, you have one last task. Hand out exit tickets. For
this we will work alone, Id like each of you to please fill out this
exit ticket for me What will you do when looking online to
validate your information, or to make sure the information you
find is true? Write 3 things, Ill give you 2 minutes.

EVALUATION
Students will submit an Exit Ticket at the end of the lesson. Students will be asked to
answer the following question: When searching for information online, name three steps
you will take to validate your information? Students should try their best to remember
three steps spoken about in class responses can be given in bullet points or in full
sentences. The teacher will review students responses following the lesson to see what
was understood.

EXITTICKET

When searching for information online, name three

steps you will take to validate your information.
1.
2.
3.