Katie+LaFrance

=Application Project Plan (APP) Planning Sheet=


 * Name:** Katie LaFrance


 * Briefly describe your tentative APP or how you think you might incorporate media literacy into the work that you do with teachers and/or students.**


 * Tentative Title: Examining Pseudoscience**


 * Target Audience: 8th graders**

**Curriculum Goals: To understand scientific processes (Analysis, Inquiry, Design)**

**Media Literacy Goals: To integrate critical thinking in media literacy through examining pseudoscience to understand how science really works.**

**Other Goals:1 - Correcting misconceptions about what constutites "science"** 2 - Creating relevance between the scientific process and students' lives

**Proposed Activities:** Evaluating the validity of specific source ("websites") claims through a checklist (see Berkely toolkit list).

**Assessment/Evaluation (how will you know your APP works to meet your goals?):** A student created Podcast where they investigate the claims made about their topic. They take on the role of an investigative reporter who is presnting their evidence to their audience.

**Resources/Support that will help you in your development of the APP:** Learn how to create Podcasts through Audacity, VocieThread or Photo Story Compiling lists of media resources for topics which are pseudoscience as well as valid science

**Difficulties/Obstacles to developing your APP:** 4 people collaborating from 2 different schools....just making time to meet/share info

**Planning Steps:**