Internet+Detective

= Evaluating Websites = // **Be an INTERNET DETECTIVE** //

Use your [|Internet Detective Worksheet]to help you.

**// 1. Can you tell which of these sites has true information and which does not ? //****// How do you know? //**
 * 1) [|Google Gulp Drink]
 * 2) [|Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie]
 * 3) ===[|Google Technology]===
 * 4) ===[|California's Velcro Crop]===

// **2. Use this Checklist to help you decide.** //

Try to remember the things in the checklist when you look at other web sites. Every time you find a new piece of information, try to answer all the questions so that you can make up your own mind whether it is quality information or not. And finally,  never follow advice from the Internet unless you are sure it is correct.

**//3.//** **// Your teacher has asked you to prepare a guide pamphlet for a tourist coming to Oslo for the first time. //** Which would be the best website to find information for your pamphlet? How do you know?
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Oslo_komm.svg/406px-Oslo_komm.svg.png width="109" height="128"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/1_sm_clr.gif link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/2_sm_clr.gif link="http://www.oslo.com/"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/3_sm_clr.gif link="http://www.oslo.kommune.no/english/"]] ||

**// 4. Which of these sites would be the best source for YOUR report on the Pyramids of Egypt? //****// Choose the best site and complete this [|worksheet]for the best site. //**


 * [[image:http://www.clker.com/cliparts/f/4/c/d/1206571054134838766nicubunu_RPG_map_symbols_Pyramid.svg.med.png width="120" height="74"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/1_sm_clr.gif link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/2_sm_clr.gif link="http://www.history.com/topics/the-egyptian-pyramids"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/3_sm_clr.gif link="http://www.hillmanwonders.com/pyramids_egypt/pyramids_egypt.htm"]] || [[image:http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Resources/4_sm_clr.gif link="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html"]] ||

Adapated from http://wbclasses.wikispaces.com/Evaluation+of+Web+Sites