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Evaluation of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Description:
Students are often asked to self-evaluate a product or project but may not have been taught the skills necessary to evaluate and access whether they have been able to achieve what has been asked of them. Even if they have been given clear guidelines, students often fail to go back and confirm if they have met all the criteria. This lesson uses popular magazine covers to develop evaluation skills. It motivates students to continue information exploration by offering them opportunities to apply their skills in real-life settings. The goal is to transfer evaluation skills to their own work.
Goals & Objectives:

Learning Objective: Students will the ability to look at a finished product and judge its effectiveness according to a set of criteria.

 

Motivational Goal: Motivate continuing information exploration. Note: This lesson may be adapted to any content area. Instead of magazine covers, examples of student work may be used.

Materials & Sources:
Chart for brainstorming A variety of magazines to appeal to students.
Procedures:

1. Discuss criteria for magazine cover design. Publishers spend a great deal of money, time and hard work to create covers that will entice people to buy their magazine. A cover must appeal to a reader's self-interest. It must persuade the reader that they must have the information that is inside. Readers must think the information is valuable to them and fun. Your magazine cover must stand out against all the others on the newsstand. Photos can attract or repel the reader. The cover lines signal the reader's interest. They announce the content and the slant of the content so the reader can judge if it will be valuable to them. Show some covers and discuss how they would or would not appeal to a reader. Do any of them use a gimmick to try to sell the magazine? What makes it stand out in the crowd?

2. Brainstorm with students a set of criteria that would judge a magazine cover on its ability to sell the magazine. (Neatness, accuracy, appropriateness, attractive or eye-catching, etc.)

 

3. In groups, have students use their criteria to judge several magazine covers. Students should be able to justify why they did or did not feel the cover was effective and what criteria was met or not met.

 4. Reflect on how they could better evaluate their products.

Assessment:
Observation
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Presented By: Jean Maier
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