CSS Podcasts: Assessing Website Credibility

Grades: 6-9

Subject: All

As part of our Collaboration and Outreach Program, the Calgary Science School is creating and sharing podcasts and PDF handouts of inquiry-based lessons designed by our teachers. We encourage feedback, comments and dialogue on the materials we publish.

This podcast contains one approach to assessing website credibility by introducing three criteria for students to use when conducting internet research projects.

These materials on website credibility were designed by The Critical Thinking Consortium, and are shared here with their permission.

Here's the accompanying PDF of the handouts. You can download the PDF by clicking on the download link at the top of the window.

OUTREACH Website Credibility

CSS Teachers at the Calgary Science Network Symposium

Two of our Grade 4 teachers are presenting at the Elementary Science Symposium hosted by the Calgary Science Network on Sept 30th. Our teachers are offering two 90 minute sessions on the Light and Shadow unit of grade 4 Science. They have some fantastic hands on material ready to share.


You can find more information about the Science Symposiums by clicking here.

The Start of a New Journey

Connect! is the Professional Learning Journal of the Calgary Science School.

As we start up this new initiative, the blog will serve a number of purposes:

1. As a place to share the classroom projects, assignments and assessment practices of the Calgary Science School
2. As a place where CSS teachers and administrators can publicly reflect and engage in dialogue on their practice
3. As a place where CSS can build a learning network outside the walls of our school. We want to collaborate with and learn from other teaching professionals, around the city, province, country and around the world.

Come join us on our new journey!

About Connect!

Connect! is the Outreach blog of the Calgary Science School.

The Calgary Science School is a public charter school located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The school is currently in it's 11th year of operation, and has a charter focus on (1) inquiry based learning, (2) technology integration, and (3) Outdoor education. Being a charter school, we follow the Alberta Learning Program of Studies.

The Calgary Science School offers a full 1:1 laptop program to students and teachers and has 600 students in grades 4-9.

The goal of this blog is twofold:

(1) to share the work we design for our students.

(2) to connect with other educators, and find meaningful opportunities for collaboration and sharing.

If you wish to email Neil Stephenson, Coordinator of the Outreach program at the Calgary Science School, please click here.