What's reliable? and GEO test!

Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed the day off yesterday.

Today in Humanities, we continued the learning process in becoming researchers. We discussed "reliable versus non-reliable sources" and determined how to distinguish the difference between the two. We defined reliable as meaning "you can count on it or trust it." Students compared and contrasted two separate sources for Miss D's topic of UFO's and helped her decide which source was reliable and which source was not. Then, we made a list of questions that we can ask ourselves in order to determine whether a source is reliable or not. Some of these questions were:

1. How does the author know about the topic?
2. How old is the author?
3. Where is this information from (for example, WHAT internet site)? Is it a credible place?
4. Does the source look professional?
5. What types of words and vocabulary does the source use?
6. Does the source seem well-written and well-thought-out?

In the Social Studies portion of class, students took their GEOGRAPHY test.

HOMEWORK: There is no reading response due tomorrow. Students are clear for the week! Tonight, they must count up the number of pages they've read, study for their vocab quiz over the CONTRA words and find an example of a reliable and not reliable source for their topic. They need to bring these example sources to class tomorrow.