Our pilot program, developed in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, The Nobel Prize Outreach and Global Access Partners, is based on the UC Berkeley’s Scientific Thinking for All – A Toolkit. It is designed to equip students with the skills to think critically when using and evaluating information, and how to use these tools in the context of real, complex issues.
Evaluating Energy Facts, How can determining a credible source help you evaluate information?
This session will demonstrate an activity where students further investigate the role of facts in decision-making. They engage in the practise of lateral reading to evaluate the credibility of an information source. Students use this tool to determine if the source for a claim of fact in the activity is credible. Then this strategy is applied to the unit scenario to evaluate claims of facts related to renewable energy.
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Evaluation #
We are collecting evaluation data to review the efficacy and relevance of this toolkit in the Australian context. Please take a few minutes to complete the surveys below:
Once you have had a chance to try this activity in your classroom, we would appreciate some further feedback in this 5-minute survey.
Slideshow and resources from the session are available here.