The fourth grade students are in the middle of a big research project. They are going to be allowed to use websites to fill finish finding facts but first they must learn how to evaluate websites.
The first thing I did was go over the ABC's of Website Evaluation. I cannot recall where I orginally saw this but I would like to give credit where credit is due:
Students and I evaluating a website together so they can learn some of the new vocabulary such as "bias" and "coverage".
Then I let them go on their own assigning each group one of the following websites below. Take a look, they are great:
1. http://www.peepresearch.org/surgery.html
2. http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
3. http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
4. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
5. http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bread.html
6. http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
Students present their findings to the class in the end.
Update
I have since found a few more haox sites
- http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html- (to advanced for my 4th graders I think)
- http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ -(love it! because it has links, a how to, and more)
- http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects/Care/care.html- (this too has pictures and links. Great!)
- http://www.thedogisland.com/photos.html- (You just want to believe it is true as a dog lover)
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And All About Explorers is full of lessons on how to evaluate sites, compare websites to book, and much more. Be sure to check out the teachers' page first. http://allaboutexplorers.com/
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