Website+Evaluation

=Lesson: Website Evaluation = = =


Students will learn how to evaluate whether a website is a useful source of information.

Lessons will be conducted using an interactive whiteboard to display web pages and graphic organizers.


Execute a search on a popular search engine, such as Google. Emphasize the number of hits found. Ask students how they will know if they found a site that they can use for their research.

Activity:

 * 1) Introduction: Instruct students that they should primarily use the sites that have been provided for them on the resource page of this wiki, or search within the databases and online encyclopedias that we have purchased. However, students tend to just use search engines when researching without guidance, so it is important for them to know how to evaluate what they discover.
 * 2) Show this Powerpoint which details criteria for evaluating websites. media type="custom" key="2889281"
 * 3) Distribute copies of the website evaluation sheet ([|WebSiteForm.doc]) to students. Open the [|Velcro Crop website] on the screen and instruct students to apply the criteria.
 * 4) Discuss what they discovered.
 * 5) Students will open laptops, in pairs, and navigate to the website evaluation links page in the wiki. They will then choose several websites to study and apply the evaluation criteria.
 * 6) Discuss what they discovered.

Wrap-up:
Display a [|Holocaust denial site] and conduct a discussion about why such a site might exist and how a student would know whether or not it was true.


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