Critical Web Viewing - Teacher Resources

Lesson Plans

Who Said That? - Students complete a tutorial on Web literacy and use what they learn to evaluate a Web site.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_01.shtml (Grades 3-5)

Digging for Gold - Students complete a tutorial on Web literacy and find the answers to an on-line scavenger hunt.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_02.shtml (Grades 6-8)

Sites and Stereotypes - Students learn to evaluate Web site content and recognize online stereotypes.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_03.shtml (Grades 6-8, 9-12)

True or False - Students complete a tutorial on Web literacy and identify Web hoaxes.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_05.shtml (Grades 9-12)



WebQuests

A Web Quest About Evaluating Web Sites (Grades 9-12) - http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evalwebstu.html

Untangling the Web, a Middle School Web Quest for Evaluating Web Sites - http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Voelker/webquest/cwvindex

What Makes a Good Web Site? (Grades 4-5) - http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq15/webq.htm



On-Line Lesson

Critical Web Viewing, Trackstar Track (Middle School) - http://trackstar.hprtec.org:80/main/track_frames.php3?track_id=158443&nocache=1723299629



Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Surveys

Elementary - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html

Middle - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalmidd.html

High - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalhigh.html



Web Site Evaluation Rubrics and Checklists

For grades K-1 - http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/rtrieger/rubric.htm

For grades 2-3 - http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/rtrieger/rubric2-3.htm

net.TUTOR Checklist - http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/checklist.html

http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/evaluate/evalbiblio.html#forms

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/tbarcalow/490NET/EvalRubric.htm#Intermediate

http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/eval/checklist.html

http://www.quick.org.uk/summaryprint.htm



On-Line Tutorial

http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html



Quick Quiz

Interactive quiz - http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm



Powerpoint Presentation - Introducing Evaluation Techniques

http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval/eval1198/index.htm



Suggestions for Successful Internet Assignments

http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalsugg.html



Citing Web Resources

Citation Style Guides - http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_Tools/Citation_Style_Guides/

APA,MLA, Turabian, and other styles - http://www.wtamu.edu/library/webguides/citingweb.shtml

MLA format - http://www.virtualsalt.com/mla.htm

Citation Machine - http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php



Citations for Web resources used on this Web Site

Beck, Susan. "Evaluation Criteria." The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: or Why It's a

a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. 5 April 2001. 8 October 2003

<http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html>.

Granath, Kim. "Evaluating Web Pages." 17 September 2003. 8 October 2003

<http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/evalweb.htm#domain>.

Harris, Robert. "Evaluating Internet Research Sources." Virtual Salt. 17 Nov. 1997.

8 October 2003 <http://virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm>.

November, Alan. "The Web - Teaching Zack to Think." High School Principal.

September 1998. 8 October 2003 <http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html>.