Literacy--Day+5

Ask students to recall as many things as they can from their "things to look for on a webpage" lists that were created yesterday. || Explain that "truncating" and URL means that you "trim it back" to the original address--without any additional extensions. || Students could blog about what they learned. ||
 * = **LFS Lesson Plan** ||
 * **Unit EQ: Why is it important for you to be "digitally literate"?** ||
 * **LEQ: What are the ABCs of Website Evaluation?** ||
 * **Activating Strategies:**
 * **Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:**
 * **Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:**
 * 1) Remind students of the list they developed yesterday of "things to look for" on a webpage when determining if it's factual or not. Explain that today, they are going to learn and practice a few other tricks that will help them make this determination.
 * 2) Hand out the "ABCs of Website Evaluation" and go over it with students. Explain that while they probably made a more detailed list yesterday, this "trick" (remembering ABCDE) will hopefully be something they can remember permanently when they look at websites in the future.
 * 3) Teach students how to do the "link test" (which is related to the "E"--external--on the website eval sheet). Visit the NW Pacific Tree Octopus site and remind them that it's a hoax site. Tell them that you're going to show them how to do a "link test" so that you can see who links TO this site. (Seeing WHO links to a site might give you an idea of WHY they're linking to the site). To do a link test:
 * 4) Go to [|www.google.com]
 * 5) in the search area, type link: (link with a colon) and then paste the address of the site you're checking right after the colon. It will look like this: link:http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Note that there are NO SPACES before or after the colon.
 * 6) Look at the search results and show the kids that many of the sites that link to the Pacific Tree Octopus show that it's a hoax. (ex. http://www.netmom.com/component/content/article/3-newsflash/4-newsflash-3.html)
 * 7) Show the kids how to "truncate" a URL and explain that this will sometimes show them "where the site came from" and might give them a little background about the author. To truncate:
 * 8) Go to the Pacific Tree Octopus site and remove the ending of the URL so the only http://zapatopi.net remains. Show them the page and find some details that might explain that the site is a hoax (Iook at the "Welcome" message).
 * 9) Have the students visit http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/evaluation/author.swf (link saved in Moodle) and complete the activity. It teaches them to look for author information and how to truncate URLs. ||
 * **Summarizing Strategies:**