The Fisher-Price Airplane
How did the Fisher-Price Airplane gets its start? Who created this airplane? What is the history of this toy?
If you had to answer these questions, where would you go to find the answers? The library? Your parents? The internet? Many people these days turn to the internet for answers to their questions. Pretend your teacher just assigned these questions for homework. When you get home, you and your parent connect to the internet and type in a search engine the phrase, "history of the Fisher-Price airplane". Below is the link to the website you find and believe will answer these questions correctly.
Before you look at the website, what do we need to watch out for? Keep in mind the following:
- Who wrote the web page?
- What is the purpose of this site, according to the author?
- When was the site created and updated?
- Where does the information come from?
- Why should I use this information?
- Why is this page better than any other?
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