Website reliability teaching unit

Hello all. I am putting together a teaching unit about information literacy and website reliability. I want to give my 7th graders a critical eye for evaluating the accuracy of website content. I have a couple of good links here but was wondering if any of you had some engaging lesson ideas or further links. Thanks for your advice. Here are the links I currently have:

http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid...
http://www.altn.org/webquests/websites/

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on August 13, 2008 at 5:36pm

I've seen "fake" sites that look real. If you aren't familiar with them let me know and I'll see if I can rack my brain and remember where I saw them--it might even be here.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on August 13, 2008 at 5:38pm

I found the discussion I was thinking of but I see you found it, too!!

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Permalink Reply by April Lawrence on August 13, 2008 at 7:53pm

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html

http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

You can find more help with teaching digital literacy at

http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=s...

Hope this is helpful!

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Permalink Reply by April Lawrence on August 13, 2008 at 7:51pm

Hi! Check out this page of websites to validate by Alan November. Pay close attention to the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (fun!), and more seriously, to www.martinlutherking.org (hosted by Stormfront, a white supremacy group). I've used both to teach the importance of validating internet sources.

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Permalink Reply by Cathy Nelson on August 14, 2008 at 6:45pm

I encourage you to listen to Bob Sprankle's BLC Podcast that features Alan November's session titled "Teaching Zach Webliteracy." It will give you a ton of information to use in your instruction. Fantastic session, and fantastic Blog/Podcast here.
http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=439

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Permalink Reply by greg on August 15, 2008 at 6:52am

Hi Andrew,
The Illinois Math and Science Academy already has an entire free program to teach these materials to students. Please check it out at
IMSA

I hope this helps.
Greg