URL Sources
Articles
History
of the Fisher-Price Airplane
Save the Pacific
Northwest Tree Octopus
Some States Fight Junk
Food in Schools
Why are Candy
Fundraisers so Powerful?
Sugar Association
Web
Evaluation Example Sites
Critical Literacy
Checklists
Kathy Schrock's 5 W's
of Web Site Evaluation
UC Berkeley's
Evaluating Web Pages
Jim Kapoun's Five
Criteria for Evaluating Web
Pages
Kathy Schrock's Guide
to Surveys and Resources
Explanation
For this activity I decided
to use 2 questionable websites as a teaching tool for the students. I
chose the “History of the Fisher-Price Airplane” because students in
the fourth and fifth grade probably have prior experience with a type
of toy like this not so long ago. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
website is interesting. The students will probably say there is no such
thing as a tree octopus, but the website looks very official. I chose
this site because it’s eye-catching and motivating. I also think this
is a good site to use to show that just because a site looks official,
doesn’t necessarily mean it provides accurate information. The websites
I chose for the main issue of selling candy in schools cover various
points of view. I want to show students that not only must you verify
information provided on a website, but also must realize that there are
different points of view on a single topic available on the internet to
investigate. The links I chose to use as evaluation tools show similar
ideas between the three of them. I chose Kathy Schrock’s evaluation
form for elementary students because the questions are kid-friendly and
at the end it requires students to write a summary of their results.
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Created by: LauraHook
Last Updated: July 27, 2008