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Sailing Home Lesson 1 — Conflicting Viewpoints
Run the lesson here; the student item below remains the independent and absence route.
Daily Learning Contract
Topic: Conflicting digital claims and evidence
Objective: Students will analyze how two digital sources use evidence and omissions to support conflicting claims, then justify which conclusions the available evidence supports.
- §126.19(c)(9)(D) — evaluate the bias of digital information sources, including websites.
Demonstration of learning: Completed AEIOU organizer plus a concise comparison naming each source's claim and evidence, one omission, and a justified evidence judgment.
Before class
Time: One class period
Student route: Lesson 1: Conflicting Viewpoints
Use what already exists: Sailing Home overview; two article PDFs; existing video and worksheet.
Lesson flow
- Launch: Launch with a concrete question or failure that makes evidence comparison matter.
- Model: Model one current example or tool move before students begin.
- Do: Guide the first decision together, then release students to the existing Canvas task.
- Check + support: Check for the named evidence, not completion alone; keep a visual sequence, sentence stems, and purposeful partner roles available.
- Close + handoff: Collect or verify the evidence and name the next lesson's connection.
Check before students leave
Ask students to point to the specific evidence above and explain one choice, test, or revision. Completion alone is not evidence of understanding.
Support + troubleshooting
Scaffold: Keep the visual task sequence visible, assign purposeful partner roles, and use the sentence stems on the student page before simplifying the task.
When students get stuck: Ask for the exact step where the tool, code, or task stopped. Check setup, inputs, and saved work before replacing the task or lowering the thinking.