“Students evaluate ideas and information by considering evidence, reliability, perspective, and relevance, then justify their responses with reasons.”
How this handout aligns
The scaffold supports students to move from surface trust or suspicion toward evidence-based judgement. It gives practical language for weighing source quality and usefulness.
Most useful when students need a repeatable framework for checking sources before they speak, write, or research further.
“Students participate in discussion and response by using relevant support to explain why one interpretation, source, or position is more convincing.”
How this handout aligns
The comparison scaffold and sentence starters help students justify source choices rather than giving unsupported preference statements.
Useful as a bridge into discussion, paragraph writing, or source ranking tasks.
“Students recognise that knowledge is shaped by perspective, context, and power, and they examine which voices are present or absent in a text.”
How this handout aligns
The Aotearoa prompts encourage ākonga to notice missing perspectives and to weigh mātauranga Māori, community knowledge, and formal evidence together.
Most useful when kaiako want evidence evaluation to include cultural and civic judgement, not just technical source checking.