Essential Understanding:
Evaluating information is critical to learning what resources are good to use to produce quality work.
Learning Outcome(s):
• Students will know and be able to evaluate information for authority, purpose, currency, bias, and relevance.
Common Core Standard(s):
W.6.8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
IFC Skills:
• Evaluates electronic and print information to determine whether it is inaccurate or misleading.
• Evaluates quality of electronic and print information for usefulness, currency, authority, and accuracy (IFC Assessment 7.3).
Resources
Gale Online Newsfeed about Fake News
Essential Understanding:
People use cyberbullying to gain power over others. A cyberbully gains power by forming a group united against a common target.
Learning Outcome(s):
• Students will understand what cyberbullying is and how it can hurt others.
• They will be able to identify cyberbullying situations and act safely to support others.
Common Core Standard(s):
• SL.6.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
IFC Skills:
• Differentiates between important and unimportant details.
• Presents conclusions and supporting facts in a variety of ways. (IFC Assessment 6.4: Conclusions and Supporting Evidence).
Resources
Common Sense Lesson: The Reality about Digital Drama?
Common Sense Lesson: Cyberbullying - Crossing the Line
Common Sense Lesson: Cyberbullying Be Upstanding
NS Teens: Making Safer Choices Online
Gale Online Newsfeed about Cyberbullying
