Have students use specific examples from their own personal Internet explorations. Write student responses on the board. Review with students how they can evaluate the authority, authenticity, and reliability of sites, using the questions on the worksheet. Students design evaluation sheets for web sites and use these sheets to evaluate popular web sites. Publish the evaluations in the school newspaper or as part of a school web site.
Students design their own web site that tells the story they want to tell.
Briefly record your findings. Explore the web site by scrolling down or clicking onto the pages within the site, reading the articles featured on the site, and looking at the overall design of the page. Estimate the ratio of useful information to irrelevant information of the site such as amount of advertising, unrelated graphics, and links, etc. Briefly record your findings. Explore the web site by scrolling down or clicking onto the pages within the site, reading the articles featured on the site, and looking at the overall design of the page.