Short Comings and Extension Ideas
This lesson was intended to be an introduction to critical information literacy. The topic and resources available were very narrow. In the future, a teacher could teach the students to use a Google Advanced Search to evaluate websites based on the quality of sites that are linked to them. The teacher may also want to show students how to seach for blogs that discuss the accuracy of the website in question. The teacher may also want to let students pick a topic to research and have the students begin to apply the skills learned from the moon landing lesson.
The lesson described isn't authentic for the students. The lesson could be used to meet some curricular standards but may not be directly connected to the students lives especially since the moon landings took place before they were born. For future lessons, the teacher should select research projects that could be considered authentic.
Finally, the lesson requires a lot of independece from the students. To make a better lesson the teacher may want to build in more scaffolding such as partner work or whole class activities.
The lesson described isn't authentic for the students. The lesson could be used to meet some curricular standards but may not be directly connected to the students lives especially since the moon landings took place before they were born. For future lessons, the teacher should select research projects that could be considered authentic.
Finally, the lesson requires a lot of independece from the students. To make a better lesson the teacher may want to build in more scaffolding such as partner work or whole class activities.