5E Lesson Plan Template

Teacher

Date 11/9/2020-11/13/2020 (no school on 11/11 for Veteran’s Day)

Subject 8th grade English language arts

area/course/grade
level

Materials -Teacher PowerPoints

-Student notes
-Student devices
-Access to the internet
-Checkology accounts
-Student access to PowerPoint

Standards (State
• State standards: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
and ISTE
publish writing and present the relationships between information and
Standards for
ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Students)
[W.8.6]

• ISTE standards: contribute constructively to project teams, assuming

various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common
goal.

Objectives Students will be able to identify the different types of infozones and
misinformation.
Students will be able to present and inform their peers about the different
types of infozones and misinformation.

Differentiation -Students will be provided with the PowerPoints we take notes from on
Strategies (How Schoology.
will the lesson
-Students who receive accommodations will take an accommodated version
address the
of the quiz.
various learning
styles of the -Students will work with a partner to create their PowerPoint presentation.
students and the
needs of those
with special
needs?)

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The 5 Es

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Engagement Students will create accounts and join our class on Checkology
(https://get.checkology.org/what-is-checkology/). Once students join, they take a 20
question survey to see what they know about news, journalism, misinformation, etc. This
hooks students by relating the content to real life and showing them how much there is
to learn about news and journalism. The picture below is what students see once they
sign in and are ready to take the survey.

Engagement While the survey is not a grade, the answers to the survey will serve as an assessment to show
Assessment how much or how little students know about news and journalism prior to us talking about it in
class.

Exploration Students will take notes on a PowerPoint presentation that includes real-life examples of
misinformation and the infozones they will need to learn. The PowerPoint slides and
notes are listed below. The infozones notes will be done on Monday 11/9 and the
misinformation notes will be done on Tuesday 11/10.

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Infozones PowerPoint and video links:

InfoZones
Not all information on the internet is created equal, and the
credibility of different types of information is often correlated
with their purpose.

Intro video

Link to video #1: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/690

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Why can’t we trust everything

we read on the internet?
Video 2

Link to video #2: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/691

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Video 3 What is the simple first step when you encounter a piece of information you are unsure about?

Link to video #3: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/694

Video 4 What are the 6 primary purposes of information?

Link to video #4: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/696

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These 6 purposes of
information correlate with
6 different InfoZones.

InfoZone #1
To entertain…

Video

InfoZone #2
To sell…

Link to video #5: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/761

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Video

InfoZone #3
To persuade…

Link to video #6: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/761

InfoZone #4
To provoke…

Video 5 Video

InfoZone #5
To document…

Link to video #7: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/706

Link to video #8: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/761

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Video 6

InfoZone #6
To inform…

Link to video #9: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/38/elements/708

Misinformation PowerPoint and video links:

Misinformation
Intro to Misinformation

Link to video #1: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/951

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§ Today, the phrase “fake news” is used too broadly to be

“Fake News” useful.

Three questions we will address…

1. What are some different types of misinformation?

Video 2 2. Why should we care?
3. How can we fight back against it?

Link to video #2: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/955

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§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
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What are some

different types of
misinformation?

Link to videos 3-7: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/956

§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
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What are some

different types of
misinformation?

§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
56

What are some

different types of
misinformation?

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§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
56

What are some

different types of
misinformation?

§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
56

What are some

different types of
misinformation?

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§ -Misinformation that is calculated and created with the

intention of causing harm is know as disinformation.
This sows seeds of distrust so people don’t know what
to believe.

Disinformation § https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
58. (start @ 30 seconds)

Link to video 8: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/958 (start @ 30 seconds)

§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
60
§ -misinformation is like pollution - it effects everyone.
§ -misinformation can influence not only our thinking
Why should we about important issues, but also our decisions and
ultimately, our actions.
care? § information warfare: a propaganda tactic that changes
as our information technologies evolve.

Link to video 9: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/960

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§ https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/9
How can we 65

fight back § -learn about it, check information for accuracy, speak
up and push back with facts.
against it?

Link to video 10: https://checkology.org/lessons/teacher/58/elements/965

Student notes listed below. This is what they are provided with, and they fill it in as we
work through the PowerPoints and vidoes.

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Exploration Students will complete the Infozones practice on Checkology on Monday after taking notes. This
Assessment activity shows them 14 different examples that are all about school lunches, and they have to
decide which Infozone it falls into. Two examples from the practice are listed below.

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