Bizzare Facts: Grade 6 + 7 Assignment 2 (Part 1)

Learning Objectives

1.Understand that information comes from different sources and can be used for different purposes

2.Write open and closed questions to produce a simple questionnaire

3.Search for, and select the best information from the Internet (Searching Skills)

4.Judge a website to see if it is reliable or not

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Activity 1: Look at the websites Save the Pacific Tree Octopus and the Dog Island. Make notes on these websites and report back to the class on what you learn.

Activity 2: Go to this website and collect 3 bizarre facts. Add these to a blog post called bizarre facts and make up one 'fact' of your own. Share with a partner and see if they can spot the made up piece of information

Activity 3:  Create a 6 Question survey to help the Daily Bizarre get more readers! 

tip: Use a mixture of open and closed questions. If you use closed questions then make sure you use multiple choice or check box question types.

Activity 4: Test your Searching Skills

Activity 5:  Can you label a Web Address?  

1) Complete this online activity
2) Look at this website to help you. When you have finished post it to your blog.

Activity 6: Last lesson you learned some tips for judging the reliability of websites. 

Now it is time to annotate web-pages for reliability. 

Use VoiceThread to label the BBC website and The De Hydrated Water website. Use these 8 basic Checkpoints to help you.

Activity 7: Look at the unit learning objectives above. 

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Describing what you have learned, what you need to learn and what you need to practice.