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Driving Question: What is the truth? :check: (Society (Activities:…
Driving Question:
What is the truth? :check:
Research
What is credibility?
How can the credibility of an author be checked?
How can research be organized to help prove that a claim is true?
How can research be organized to help prove that a claim is true?
Activities:
Fake website evaluation:
Tree Octopus
All About Explorers
Dihydrogen Monoxide
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Dog Island
The Republic of Molossia
Questions to check credibility:
Who wrote it?
What are their credentials?
What is the purpose of the information?
Do you think it is real?
Product
A classroom website that will include journalistic and investigative multimedia from students debunking or proving common societal, scientific, and cultural myths.
Society
How does information that is not credible influence individuals or events?
Can human beings hold multiple, contradictory beliefs?
How can the presentation of information manipulate its credibility?
Activities:
Reading news articles from different sources.
Discussing gossip and its role in information.
Fake, partially fake, and real emails from teacher
What is bias?
Text Purpose
How can the presentation of information manipulate its credibility?
To what extent does an author's perspective influence our understanding of the truth?
What makes information credible?
Frontloading:
Credibility presentation
Citations + credibility mini-quiz