Evaluating the Reliability of Websites

Finding reliable Sources of Information

SS 9: Evaluating Websites

Look at all these sites. Rate them using the checklist given in class. 

Then choose the 3 best (most useful, reliable) sites and 3 worst (unreliable) sites from 3 different categories.

News/Current Events

            ð Al Jazeera

ð The Independent

ð News Biscuit

ð Real News Online

ð TMZ

Science and Technology

ð Canadian Space Agency

ð GenoChoice

ð Gizmodo

ð Google Technology

ð NASA Kids’ Club

Health/Food and Nutrition

ð Buy Dehydrated Water

ð Lip Balm Anonymous

ð HGH: Human Growth Hormone

ð Dangers of Bread

Travel/Geography

ð Global Trek

ð Mankato Minnesota

ð National Geographic

ð The Republic of Molossia

ð Traveler IQ

ð What’s It Like Where You Live?

Animals

           

ð Conservation In Action

ð Government Animal Projects

ð Mountain Walrus

ð Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

History

ð BoilerPlate

ð Eyewitness to History

ð History House

ð MI5 History

ð The Vikings

Government/Public Service/Safety

            ð Climate Change

ð Smokey Bear

ð Spy Museum

            ð Whirled Bank