Step 1.2: Evaluating information

Suggested Subject Area: Critical Thinking and Literacy

Purpose
To provide students with opportunities to:

• Gather information and analyse it for integrity, balance, visual presentation, clarity, principles of sustainable development
• Record ideas and share with others.

Preparation
You will need:

• Copy of the evaluation rubric in Resource 1.1 for all students
  

Procedure
Explain to the students that during this unit of work, they will read and view a range of source materials. Sources could include web sites, YouTube videos, social media sites, media articles, case studies, fact sheets and more. Discuss with the class the importance of using reliable and accurate sources of information.

Ask students to begin using the rubric in their learning journal to record source materials used in the unit and to examine them for integrity, balance, visual presentation, clarity, principles of sustainable development etc. See a page within Resource 1.1.

For example:

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