Introduction:

Evaluating websites is very important in the Internet age since anyone can produce a website.

Objectives:

Objective is to have students understand how to evaluate information on a website.

Materials:

Here is a government produced website with lots of helpful handouts

http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/snakeoil/

Activities:

http://nnlm.gov/training/consumer/snakeoil/

Use handouts in class and have students follow the directions.  Have them go to some of the websites suggested on the handouts.

Homework:

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Teacher Notes:

Time needed to teach:

1 Session

Tags:

Evaluating credibility, bias