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Check and update a Wikipedia page with reliable information

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Computational Thinking and Creativity Web Research Challenge

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Objectives

Computing

  • Use search technologies effectively.
  • Appreciate how results are selected and ranked.
  • Be discerning in evaluating digital content.
  • Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of ICT.

Geography

  • Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features, and land-use patterns.

English

  • Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own; proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.

Lesson Planning

Use your advanced search skills to identify a range of reliable sites on a UK area and edit a related Wikipedia webpage, adding in some of your own researched information.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To use advanced search processes to find specific and reliable information. Edit existing online content on Wikipedia.
  • To research and identify reliable pieces of human or physical geographic information.
  • To use plain English, accurate spellings and punctuation for an online contribution.

Children will:

  • Use advanced search processes to find specific and reliable info about the human or physical geography of a UK city, county or region.
  • Check and add to a Wikipedia page by checking against reliable sources of info.
  • Identify and add reliable geographic info to a ‘regional’ Wikipedia page.
  • Update a Wikipedia entry using plain English as well as accurate spellings and punctuation.

Provided Resources

  • Search pairs game
  • Jimmy Wales’ challenge #2
  • Plain English rules

You Will Need

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