1. Concept Attainment Lesson 6 th Grade Technology iMET6 2003 Glee Mellor, Eve Benson, Debbie Clingingsmith, and Allen Boxall

2. Lesson Objective Students will be able to discern the appropriateness of a website for the purpose of educational research. This lesson is based on…“The Socratic method: Teaching by asking instead of by telling. “

3. From the items shown, one is an example, and the other a non- example. Your job is to figure out what makes one example a good example and what makes the other a non-example. Exemplars Positive www.gsusa.orgwww.gsusa.org Negative computer

4. Look at these two items. The one on your left is an example of the attribute for our lesson today. The non-example is not.attribute Example Non example www.congress.org www.congresswww.congress.orgwww.congress

5. Now look at these two pairs: www.congress.org has attributes that www.congress does not.www.congress.org www.congress

6. For right now… I want you to work alone and think about what these attributes could mean. With this next pair, I would like you to write down what you think the attributes of the examples might be. This will be your hypothesis. Positive Negative www.loc.govwww.loc.gov www.whitehousewww.whitehouse

7. What about these? What makes them positive examples and negative examples? www.whitehouse.govwww.whitehouse.gov www.amazon.comwww.amazon.com www.directconwww.directcon www.ebay.comwww.ebay.com www.csus.eduwww.csus.edu www.weatherchannel.xyzwww.weatherchannel.x

8. Where would you put this example, in the positive or the negative side? www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov And how about this example ? www.ucdwww.ucd

9. What are the attributes of the positive and negative examples?positive and negative examples

10. Why are these endings critical to this technology class? technology class

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