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Understanding How Digital Information Comes to You Lesson PlanUnderstanding How Digital Information Comes to You Lesson Plan
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Teaching Tolerance
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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1 hr
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Understanding How Digital Information Comes to You

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Google, Yahoo!, Bing ... so many choices, so little time! Using the resource, scholars explore how different search engines affect the way they find information. After reading a handout on the topic and engaging in small group discussions, pupils create advertisements explaining why their favorite search engines are better than others.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

information literacy, Media Literacy, search engines, Digital Citizenship, persuasive arguments, persuasive language, persuasive techniques

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Include pictures and translations of lesson vocabulary to support English learners
  • Have individuals research a specialty search engine and report on their findings

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires advance preparation to create a search engine results packet for students
  • Requires computers with internet access

Pros

  • Includes a list of external links
  • Provides lesson objectives and essential questions

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.4 RI.9-10.8 RI.11-12.1 RI.11-12.2 RI.11-12.4 RI.11-12.7

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