Guidelines for Middle School Students in Evaluating Websites
These are the guidelines I give my students to help them find high quality websites for in-class research. They are not perfect, but they save us a lot of time.
| GOOD | BAD | MAYBE |
| .edu | .com | .org |
| .gov | .net | |
| Many Advertisements | ||
| EXAMPLES | ||
| http://nmt.edu | http://ask.com | GOOD: http://nmnaturalhistory.org |
| http://unm.edu | http://answers.yahoo.com | BAD: http://wikipedia.org |
| http://usgs.gov | http://quora.com | |
| http://noaa.gov | http://stackexchange.com |
What strategies have you found useful to improve your students ability to decern high-quality online content? Please share your methods in the comment section bellow.
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Written on February 26, 2018