Research Tips
 When we research, it’s important to….
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to…
1. Identify High Quality Websites
2. Language Objective
1.
Using a list of questions, I can evaluate the quality of a
website.
Essential Question
When can you trust what you find on the internet?
Photos of Hurricane Sandy
Can anyone be an author?
Print
Electronic
Book publishers and
newspaper editors look
for authors who know a
lot about their subjects.
There is not an
“electronic editor” for
Internet information.
Have editors and fact
checkers who review
before publishing.
Anyone can publish.
There are websites
written by experts….how
do you know?
Test Before you Trust
How do you know if a website is trustworthy?
There are websites that are trustworthy and have high
standards for publishing.
Know how to evaluate websites to make sure it’s
trustworthy.
Website Activity
 Click on the website given to you.
 Use the worksheet to evaluate the website.
 Discuss what you learned….
Do you trust your assigned website?
What makes a website trustworthy?
What was most important to you?
OPVL
A way to evaluate a website:
Origin
Author, company or organization.
From where did the information originate?
Purpose
Is the purpose of the website fact or opinion?
Are there ads?
Is the website sponsored by any organizations?
What is the purpose of the website? To inform or to persuade?
What is the tone of the website?
Is it open to everyone or do you have to sign in and register?
Validity
How useful is the information?
What is the date of publication or update?
Is there enough information for your research?
Limitations
How easy is the website to use?
Does the website use understandable text and language?
Are there other links? Do the links work?
OPVL
 Origin
 Purpose
 Validity
 Limitations
Searching for better results
 Use a site operator as a term in the search string.
Domain suffix:
.org
.com
.net
.edu
.gov
. mil
non-profit organization
commercial
network or net provider
education
government
military
Searching for better results
*Put quotation marks for words in a certain order.
Example: “peanut butter”
*Use a minus sign to create a negative term.
Example: Vikings
Vikings –football
civil war –Wikipedia
homer –simpsons
Reflection
 How can you take what you learned
today about evaluating websites to
help you in your everyday use of the
Internet?
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