Blackburne Library >> Middle School Pathfinders >> Evaluating Websites
How to evaluate a website:
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
1. What do you think of the following website?
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
2. Here are some more websites to evaluate:
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge
History of the Fisher-Price Airplane
3. Go to Google and find a website for one of the following subjects. Try to determine if the website is reliable using the criteria we have discussed:
Smoking
Fast food
John McCain
Hunting
Gun control
4.. Choose one of the Middle School resources on the “Search the Web” page and look up one of the same topics above: http://fc.packer.edu/Library/libweb/mssearch.htm
Did you find any useful websites? How can you tell if these sites are reliable?
5. Use NoodleBib to list your sources. In most cases, you will be citing a "website" which is not part of a subscription database.
6. Here is a summary of what you should be looking for when you find a website. This site is from the Multnomah County Library in Oregon:
Multnomah County Library: evaluate websites