Pacific North West Tree Octopus
Owain Llewellyn
Created on February 10, 2019
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Lesson Plan This lesson aims to raise awareness of the fact that what you find on the internet is not always true, and aims to give students tools to check how trustworthy a website is to imporve their information literacy. Preparation and materials: Print outs of this worksheet for each student. A computer with projector or IWB 1. Warmer Show the picture of the octopus and get chatting about it. Have people seen an octopus? What do they know about them. Click on the number 1 and then click on the "!" signs. Students discuss whether the statements are true or false. Do not give anything away until the end of the lesson. They are all true except for the statement about the North-West Pacific tree octopus, which doesn't exist! All the other facts come from this source: https://onekindplanet.org/animal/octopus/ Amazing Facts about Octopuses | OneKindPlanet Animal Education Octopuses are considered the most intelligent of all invertebrates. Scientific studies are increasingly confirming that they are sentient creatures....OneKindPlanet When ready, press the home button and go to 2. 2. Web Discuss the lead in question about the website and then let students read through it. They may do this from the board, you may print the page, or they may read of devices or computers. When they are ready, click the arrow to the comprehension questions and let them discuss. Try to pretend you believe the website! They feedback ideas to the class. Let the conversation run. Press on home and go to 3. 3. What's next? Focus students on the question and let them read this resource from British Council LearnEnglish Teens website British Council LearnEnglish Teens | Free resources for teens to help improve your English LearnEnglish Teens provides information, tips and resources to help teenagers learn...Britishcouncilfrom on checking out websites. Get their ideas, and click for the final task. Let them read the website again, checking it out using the criteria from the worksheet you have printed. At this point, hopefully they will realise the website is a clever spoof. Discuss how much this is a problem in general and elicit the ways they can check if a website is trustworthy or not.
What do you think? True or False.
The Pacific North-West Tree Octopus is one of very few Octopus that lives on land.
Octopus carry around shells for protection.
Octopus really do make gardens!
There are around 300 different types of Octopus!
An octopus has three hearts
Look at the website in the link. What information do you think will be in this website? Make 3 predictions and then read it to check.
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Click on the picture to open the website. Click on the black arrow to go to comprehension questions after reading.
How much did you understand?
- Where does the North-West Pacific tree octopus live?
- What is special about it?
- What problems does it face?
- What can be done to help it?
Final task. click here:
Your teacher will give you this worksheet from the British Council LearnEnglish Teens website. What advice does it give?
Re-read the website about the Pacific NorthWest Tree Octopus. Ask yourself the questions on the worksheet. How trustworthy do you think this site is?
What do you think?
1. Why did someone make the website we looked at?
3. What advice would you give someone to check information?
2. What 'misinformation' have you found online?
4. What endangered wildlife is there where you live?
5. What can be done to protect it?