Learning Activity

Gathering Information From Audio Sources

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

9, 10

Overview

After learning about types of audio sources and defining credible and useful, students will listen to audio sources for the purpose of gathering useful information. The teacher will play two audio sources for the students. Students will assess the credibility and usefulness of these sources and participate in a listening, note-taking, and written position statement activity.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 9

ELA21.9.23

Use audio sources to obtain useful and credible information to answer a question, solve a problem, or defend a position.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.9.23

Vocabulary

  • Audio sources
  • Useful information
  • Credible information

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Credible information is accurate and reliable.
  • Information learned through listening can be used to answer a question, solve a problem, or defend a position.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Assess the credibility of information from an audio source.
  • Respond to information obtained through listening by answering a question, solving a problem, or defending a position.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Listening actively can help them determine if the speaker's ideas are useful and credible to the given occasion.
  • They can use the information they learn from listening to others speak for a variety of purposes.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 10

ELA21.10.23

Use audio sources to obtain useful and credible information to answer a question, solve a problem, or defend a position.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.10.23

Vocabulary

  • Audio sources
  • Useful information
  • Credible information

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Credible information is accurate and reliable.
  • Information learned through listening can be used to answer a question, solve a problem, or defend a position.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Assess the credibility of information from an audio source.
  • Respond to information obtained through listening by answering a question, solving a problem, or defending a position.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Listening actively can help them determine if the speaker's ideas are useful and credible to the given occasion.
  • They can use the information they learn from listening to others speak for a variety of purposes.

Phase

During/Explore/Explain
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Students will explain the usefulness and credibility of an audio source.
  • Students will obtain useful information from audio sources.

Activity Details

1. Tell students that they will be using audio sources to gather information. Students will be listening for understanding instead of reading for understanding. 

2. The teacher will prepare the audio sources for the class to listen to. Although the audio sources are presented along with transcripts or articles that relay the information in print, students should not have access to the print content. 

3. The teacher will distribute a print or electronic copy of the note-taking document. 

4. Share the directions on the note-taking document with the students: Listen to the two audio sources related to high school start times and answer the following questions. 

5. Before sharing the audio, ask students to read the titles of the audio sources to predict what the audio sources are about (benefits of a later school start time). 

6. Play the video/audio of “Nashville Mayor-Elect Wants to ‘Fix High School Start Times.’” Students should answer the Source 1 questions on the document. 

7. Explain that replaying the video/audio is analogous to rereading written text and that listening to the audio multiple times may be necessary to fill in information gaps. 

8. Play the “Nashville Mayor-Elect” video/audio again so that students can fill in the gaps in their note-taking.

9. Play the audio of “Sleepless No More In Seattle — Later School Start Time Pays Off For Teens” Students should answer the Source 2 questions on the document. 

10. Play “Sleepless No More” again so that students can fill in the gaps in their note-taking.

11. Students will respond to the following prompt on the note-taking document: Consider the information in the two audio sources. Write a position statement about school start times.

12. Students will take notes to defend their position in the next activity. Students do not yet need to add notes to each bullet point.

 

Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  • The teacher will evaluate the students’ note-taking document to determine whether they have gathered useful information from the audio sources
  • The teacher will evaluate the students’ note-taking document to determine whether students have explained why the sources are useful and credible. 
  • ANSWERS Audio Sources - Note-taking

Acceleration

  • Students may complete the notetaking document after listening to the audio sources just once. 
  • Students may add more than two statements or pieces of evidence to support the position statement. 
  • Students may search for additional audio sources on the same topic and obtain information from these. 

Intervention

  • Students may listen to the audio source more than two times. 
  • Students may listen to just one of the audio sources instead of both to gather information.

Approximate Duration

Total Duration

16 to 30 Minutes

Related Learning Activities

Learning Activity (Before)

Defining Useful and Credible Audio Sources

Learning Activity (During)

Gathering Information From Audio Sources

Learning Activity (After)

Defending a Position With Information From an Audio Source

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

Teachers should have presented the Before activity on Defining Useful and Credible Audio Sources. They should have internet access and audio distribution capabilities that allow the whole class to hear the audio clips. Teachers will need to decide whether students will complete the note-taking document in written form or in digital form and make print copies of the document or post the document to the learning management system. 

Students should have completed the Before activity and know the definitions of useful and credible and also know PAARC (purpose, authority, accuracy, relevance, currency) criteria for determining whether a source is useful and credible. Students may need a digital device if the teacher decides that the note-taking document should be completed digitally.

Materials and Resources

Materials and Resources

Teacher Materials:

Student Materials: 

Digital Tools / Resources

“Nashville Mayor-elect Wants to ‘Fix High School Start Times’”
https://www.wsmv.com/2023/09/20/nashville-mayor-elect-wants-fix-high-school-sta…
“Sleepless No More In Seattle — Later School Start Time Pays Off For Teens
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/12/676118782/sleepless-no-mor…
Audio Sources - Note-taking
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SdE8XNGGIHY88x-uALrxEnYfNHag9dmc81iCuSas3LM…
ANSWERS Audio Sources - Note-taking
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z7WZlQFytSdLJ1sjP--y-q4HcTLmld6JiYsq44Km6VY…

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