Activity
ACTIVITY- Genetically Modified Food Jigsaw
Essential Question:
How would you assess these sites’ validity?
Process:
- Begin asking the group which of the following if evaluated would show relevancy, accuracy, reliability, and authority. Show the following items to your group.
- Newpaper
- Tabloid
- Classic book
- Book that is less than classic
- Newscast
- Picture
- Forgery
- Encyclopedia
- Magazine
- Zine
- Several websites- real and shams (see bibliography)
- Break up into 3 small groups.
- Assign each small groups, one of the websites below..
- Demonstrate info:website name in Google
- Give the groups 10 minutes to evaluate the site and prove their site is correct or incorrect.
- Remind them of the three guiding questions:
- Is the website relevant?
- What is the authority for the website?
- Is the website accurate and reliable?
- Groups report back to the entire group what they found
- When the activity is complete, assess the things teachers/students already knew or discovered as they were evaluating their website. Help the group notice that the MLK site hosted by Stormfront has a lot of legitimate people linking to it because schools use it the same way we are using it.
