Objectives

1. Literacy: Students will notice, label, and share useful strategies for (a) navigating interactive features of websites and (b) locating information about the author to begin to judge reliability.
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2. Content: Students will collaboratively locate and generate/summarize answers to information problems that will help them more deeply understand how we learn more about the whole solar system from planet Earth.

Alignment to Scarsdale Elementary Technology Expectations • Grades 3-5 Research & Information Retrieval • Grades 3-5 Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision Making


 * Lesson Summary:** Invite students to engage in a range of interactive simulations that prompt thinking about information problems related to how we learn about the solar system. Have students work with a partner to discuss and note strategies they use as well as information they encounter that can help them solve their information problem. The task should prompt students to synthesize knowledge gleaned from interacting with online simulations and text-based information and communicate that information to others in their group and class. Time will be saved at the end of the class for students to share what they found in their smaller groups/partners about (a) effective and ineffective online strategies for navigating and evaluating online information and (b) how scientists use special tools and techniques to help us learn more about the solar system.