Big Idea:
The Internet is growing by thousands of sites each day. Anyone can publish on the Internet. Much of the information is great and much is garbage or worse. Can you tell the difference?
Need to Know:
How do you find what you are looking for?
How do you tell if the site is good?
How do you cite sources so you aren't plagiarising or breaking copyright laws?
The Mission:
Learn to evaluate the site and it's information.
Learning Tasks:
1. Look at this site to get an idea of the information that you are looking for to determine the quality of each website.
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webcrit.html
2. Your group is trying to determine the sites listed are ones that you could use for a school research project.
Take 10 minutes to look over and discuss both sites with your group. You will want to look at the organization or person who created the site. You might look at how often or how recently the site was updated. You might use your prior knowledge to determine the quality of the information. Complete one worksheet for each site. Use the "Five Criteria" chart below for taking notes on this worksheet. Be sure to put your name(s) on the worksheet.
2. Choose a member of the group to report to the class. The reporter should tell 3 things about each site that led you to your decision. These can be three reasons that it is a good site or three things why you would not use the site.
Group A:
WTO - World Trade Organization - GATT
http://www.gatt.org/
Welcome to the WTO webiste
http://www.wto.org/
Group B:
Global Warming
http://www.globalwarming.org/
Climate Change - US EPA
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
Group C:
Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Camel Spiders
http://www.camelspiders.net/
Standards Covered:
