STUDENT OUTCOMES
The goals of the present activity are:
1. To acquaint the student with different types of electronic media:
a. the Internet
b. Commercial Internet databases
c. CD-ROMS
2. To acquaint the students with the pro’s and con’s of utilizing information from the Internet
3. To acquaint students with the different types of webites
1. To provide students with the tools for separating good educational websites from poor ones
CONTENT AREA and GRADE LEVELS
The present activities are appropriate for secondary students. Although the content areas involved are Literature and History, the activities are appropriate for any topic involving information from the Internet and/or CD-ROMs.
CRITICAL THINKING
1. Analyzing quality and poor websites
2. Separating quality from poor websites
3. Analyzing works of Literature
4. Integrating information from a variety of sources
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
Some of the skills students will use are:
1. Become members of an interdependent team
2. Learn how to work with people of varying abilities
3. Enhance their ability to communicate with others
CONTENT STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS
PROCESS
1. First, the student will be assigned to a team of four students
Each of the students will take on one of the roles of biographer, critic, historian, and author.
2. Once the students have picked a role to play the students will read information on evaluating websites as background knowledge to the teacher’s lecture on the quality of information from the Internet.
3. The students will decide upon a period of English literature to research.
4. The students will research that aspect of English literature they have chosen.
5. The members of the group will come together to create a report.
TECHNOLOGY USAGE
Students will use CD-ROM sources, commercial on-line databases, and the Internet as information sources
RESOURCES NEEDED
1. PC or MAC computers
2. CD-ROM source: Discovering Authors
3. On-Line Commercial Database: GALENET
4. Netscape or Explorer browser
EVALUATION
EXTENSION
CONCLUSION
