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Teacher’s Toolkit: Information literacy for science education—Evaluating web-based materials for socioscientific issues

Science Scope—April/May 2008

Students who engage in scientific inquiry must be able to evaluate the processes and evidence used to reach conclusions about scientific issues, regardless of whether the process is conducted in the classroom or through an information search on the internet. To explore strategies for integrating information literacy and science, the authors engaged students in analyses of internet-based content related to a current socioscientific issue: global warming. A WebQuest, which is described in this article, was developed to guide students through the process of evaluating websites.
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