Lesson Plan for the Critical Evaluation of the Web:
1) Watch the youtube video:
2) What is a URL? Watch the youtube video:
3) Complete the Internet Detective Tutorial
Internet Detective
4) Who owns the websites? Use easyWhois.com. Or better yet, try this: http://www.quarkbase.com
5) Lets evaluate: California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge: http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Did you know about the Velcro shortage in California?
6) Download this form and evaluate one of the sites below (for extra credit, you can evaluate another one):
- http://www.themeatrix.com/
- http://www.allaboutexplorers.com
- http://www.fvza.org/
- Tree Octopus
- http://www.dhmo.org/
- http://www.elvis-is-alive.com/
- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
- Jackalope Conspiracy
- Metric Time
- Mind Control Aluminum Foil Deflector
- http://www.iteachtech.com/wp
- pick out a website that you like to visit and evaluate it for extra credit
7) Check out Snopes-http://www.snopes.com/
Resources:
The University of Missouri’s eMINTS education site: Evaluating and Using Internet Resources
9) Take the Quiz-http://www.classzone.com/books/research_guide/page_build.cfm?content=postquiz&state=none
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Did form and questions printed copy of finished form just in case.Some questions did not make sense,were not clear,or had no use to me,however I answered to the best of my ability.Form needs more space to type besides one letter for questions that require more than one letter answers.Took quiz was pretty easy.