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Boolify and Why : Sorting out the

Nuggets of your Wants

C reators: Kevin Forgard, Yan Huang, Mehkta Waney

Brief Description: This lesson focuses on teaching students Boolean operators to assist
them in conducting more effective search outcomes.

Instructional Goal: Engage students in developing Boolean search techniques

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the Boolean search concepts of ‘AND’, ‘OR’, and ‘NOT’
using the boolify.org website
• To teach students cognitive search strategies using keyword searches
• When researching the web for academic information, students will be able to
efficiently locate appropriate materials

Grade level: 6-8

Lesson Time: Two 1-hour afternoon classes – Divided as ‘Lesson One’ and ‘Lesson Two’

Tools needed:
• PowerPoint (slides provided at this link)
• Projector
• Computer workstations with Internet access
• Hand outs (provided)

Content
Lesson 1
Introduction:
Have students visit the website http://www.nytimes-se.com/
Ask students to review the site by eliciting questions such as:
Do you think this is real?
What makes you think this is a fake website?
Note the date and any other irregularities on this website as 2009.

State lesson objectives:

Learning O bjectives– W eb Evaluation :

Introduce w eb evaluation standards


using 5 W s
Know the differencesbetw een hoax
and realw ebsite.

In this class we will discuss how to evaluate a website by asking questions.


We will also discuss the difference between real and hoax websites.

Body:
Lecture:
Focus student’s attention by asking what the question words are.
Hand out paper “The Five W’s of Web
Five W ’sforW ebsite Evaluation Site Evaluation” and note how
questions elicit more information.
W – W ho
W – W hat
W – W hen
W – W here
W – W hy

Note the vocabulary of Authority, Objectivity, Currency, Accuracy (AAOC)


Ask students what these words mean and explain how they relate to the w
questions. Slide are shown to help concrete the abstract concepts
For example:
Authority relates to who is presenting the
AUTHO RITY information.

Ask students to look at this slide, what do


vs
you think have more authority?

Objectivity relates to whether


O BJECTIVITY information is biased or not.

Currency relates to how current the


CURREN CY information is.

1993 1999 2006

1989 1996 2003

Accuracy relates to how correct the


ACCURACY information is

Lead students through the questions on the http://www.nytimes-se.com/ or have


them choose their favorite website.
Ask: what other questions might you ask to tell if a website it real?
Can websites look true, but not be accurate?
Activity 1:
Distribute worksheet: “Evaluating Websites” to individual or pairs of students.
Have them complete the worksheet.
Assign website from this list to each student (or pair).
They are all hoax sites.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
http://descy.50megs.com/descy/webcred/webcred/dhmo.html
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html
http://www.fulkerson.org/ancestors/buyanancestor.html
http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
http://www.dhmo.org/
http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20011009000114/www.goldengatetunnel.com/
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
http://city-mankato.us/
http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
http://www.ovaprima.org/
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.htm
http://descy.50megs.com/descy/webcred/webcred/Fredericton.html

Conclusion: Feedback/Reflection:
After students answer the questions, they present their website to the class.

Lesson 2 – Online practice


Activity 2:
Have students go to this website for a tutorial
www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
Be sure they take the quiz.

Activity 3:
Students choose their favorite website to review. They must also create
evaluation questions that relate to and are justified by the 5 W’s and AAOC. The
students then answer the questions related to their website.
Finally, they present the website to the class with their questions stating that the
website is good or bad based on their evaluation.

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