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Ideas for How to Use Wikipedia in the Classroom
These ideas were shared during a group brainstorm.

ELA/History

 * Working backwards - take something that is completed and help understand each section
 * follow an external link backwards to find where the author found the source/citation
 * in the end, group work - have students research a topic of interest and suggest edits
 * real life example of understanding the importance of citing sources
 * History standard is to evaluate the validity of a source

Math/Science

 * Starting with a classroom Wiki to introduce editing and how a wiki works
 * Working towards editing math and science articles to make them more readable

Electives

 * Train on Wikipedia, how to navigate
 * Read an article
 * Check for understanding/take it apart
 * verify the sources of the article and prepare a classroom discussion
 * have classroom discussion
 * critical thinking - what would you change? agree/disagree?

Follow this process several times so that sometime in Spring semester they will be ready to actually edit an article

Cross-curriculuar


 * research project focused on careers - history of a particular career, real-life projects related to that career path, ELA teachers to assist with grammar and writing skills
 * 6th grade - World Cultures - covers a different continent every few weeks - can cover environmental factors in science, literature from the county in English, could edit continent pages to add more information