ALEX Learning Activity

  

A Final Trip to the PAARC

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Crystal Lamar
System:Alabaster City
School:Alabaster City Board Of Education
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2840
Title:
A Final Trip to the PAARC
Digital Tool/Resource:
A Walk in the PAARC SlideShow
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

This is a final activity for demonstrating students' understanding of how to evaluate sources for credibility. After reviewing the PAARC model Slide Show and Infographic, and after having students evaluate sources in a small group, this activity is designed to be used to assess individual students' understanding of the objective. Students will follow the links to three sources and use the PAARC model to provide guidance on the credibility of the sources. Students will make notes on the provided graphic organizer and determine if the sources provided are legitimate. The chosen sources all relate to F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author widely studied in eleventh grade. Students need to keep in mind the following question: Would this source be appropriate to use in a research paper?

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
24. Evaluate the credibility of sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.

a. Assess the usefulness of written information to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
24.
  • Evaluate
  • Credibility
  • Authority
  • Relevance
  • Accuracy
  • Purpose
24a.
  • Assess
  • Written information
Knowledge:
24. Students know:
  • Strategies to assess the credibility of research sources.
  • Features of authoritative, relevant, and accurate research sources.
24a.
  • Strategies to locate relevant and credible written information.
  • Credible information is accurate and reliable.
  • Criteria to determine the usefulness a research source.
  • Information learned through reading can be used to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Skills:
24. Students are able to:
  • Evaluate the credibility of research sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • Locate useful written information in the research process.
  • Determine the usefulness of a research source.
  • Use research findings to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Understanding:
24. Students understand that:
  • Before using a source in their research projects, they should evaluate the credibility of the source in terms of its authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • It is necessary to determine the usefulness of a source before using it as evidence to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
24. Evaluate the credibility of sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.

a. Assess the usefulness of written information to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
24.
  • Evaluate
  • Credibility
  • Authority
  • Relevance
  • Accuracy
  • Purpose
24a.
  • Assess
  • Written information
Knowledge:
24. Students know:
  • Strategies to assess the credibility of research sources.
  • Features of authoritative, relevant, and accurate research sources.
24a.
  • Strategies to locate relevant and credible written information.
  • Credible information is accurate and reliable.
  • Criteria to determine the usefulness a research source.
  • Information learned through reading can be used to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Skills:
24. Students are able to:
  • Evaluate the credibility of research sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • Locate useful written information in the research process.
  • Determine the usefulness of a research source.
  • Use research findings to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Understanding:
24. Students understand that:
  • Before using a source in their research projects, they should evaluate the credibility of the source in terms of its authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • It is necessary to determine the usefulness of a source before using it as evidence to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Learning Objectives:

1. Students will evaluate three sources and through this evaluation, demonstrate an understanding of purpose, accuracy, authority, relevance, and currency in determining the credibility of relevant sources for potential research.

2. Students will determine the credibility of the provided sources by using the PAARC model.
  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

  1. Optional: Teachers may choose to review the Slide Show on the PAARC Test prior to this activity.

  2. Optional: Teachers may choose to print a copy of the Infographic. The teacher will post the Infographic to a classroom forum such as Google Classroom, and/or make a poster of the resource.

  3. Optional: Teachers may choose to allow students to use their group activity as a reference.

  4. Teachers will pass out the worksheet and explain that students are given three sources to evaluate. They will use the Infographic and Slide Show as guides to evaluate each of the links. Notes will be taken in the appropriate columns, and final evaluations of each source will be made as "yes," "no," or "maybe" in terms of validity and reliability.

  5. Students will turn in their worksheets to the teacher for final evaluation.
Assessment Strategies:

Completed graphic organizers will be assessed in terms of student understanding of what details a credible or non-credible source. The completed graphic organizers will be submitted to the teacher for evaluation.
Advanced Preparation:

  1. Teachers may make the Slide Show and Infographic available to students digitally.

  2. Students may use the links on the worksheet to access the sources for evaluation, or the teacher may choose to copy and print the sources for use. 

  3. If the students are accessing the link, the teacher needs to be prepared to use Chromebooks or computers.
Variation Tips (optional):

Teachers may choose their own sources or use the ones provided.
Notes or Recommendations (optional):

While this is designed as an individual activity, teachers could use it as a group activity, or for whole-class instruction.

Corresponding activities can be found here--

Before Activity: A Walk in the PAARC: Evaluating Source Credibility

During Activity: Continued Visit to the PAARC: Evaluating Multi-Genre Sources for Credibility
  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: accuracy, authority, CRAAP Test, credibility, currency, effective sources, F Scott Fitzgerald, PAARC Test, Peer reviewed journal, purpose, relevance