How to Evaluate Websites!

Students will be put in groups of 2 or 3 studentsand assigned a website to evaluate using the "Rating Web Sites" worksheet. Students should read each question carefully and circle the correct answer. Once the worksheet is completed, students will total each column and then come up with score for their website..

• Any website that rates 32 or higher or should be considered a good website.

• Website that rate between 31-25 should be used as a resource with caution.

• Finally any website with a score less than 25 should be avoided.

Even if a website rates high using one of these forms, common sense should always be used when looking at a website. If it looks fake it just might be! In that case you may want to seek the help of an adult to figure out if the site is real or not.

Websites to Evaluate

Below is the list of websites you may be assigned:

1. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
   • http://descy.50megs.com/descy/webcred/webcred/dhmo.html
2. Yo-Yo History
   • http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story075.htm
3. Boilerplate: Mechanical Marvel of the 19th Century
   • http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
4. California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge
   • http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
5. Case Analysis of a Historic Killer Tornado
   • http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/
     SELS96/WoO.html
6. Clones-R-Us Homepage
   • http://www.d-b.net/dti/
7. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
   • http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
8. Google Lunar Job Opportunities
   • http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
9. Google Technology - Pigeon Ranking
   • http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
10. Jacopo di Poggibonsi
    • http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/index2.html
11. Mankato (MN) Home Page
    • http://city-mankato.us/
12. The History of Aspirin
    • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blaspirin.htm
13. MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency
    • http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm
14. History of the Fisher-Price Airplane
    • http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
15. Whooping Crane - National Wildlife Foundation
    • http://www.nwf.org/whoopingcrane/
16. OvaPrima Foundation
    • http://www.ovaprima.org/
17. Visit Exciting Fredericton
    • http://descy.50megs.com/descy/webcred/webcred
      /Fredericton.html
18. Britain For Americans
    • http://www.brookview.karoo.net/BFA/
19. First Page of the Internet
    • http://www.internetfirstpage.com/
20. Whooping Crane - National Geographic
    • http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/whooping-crane.html