Website Evaluation
Essential Questions:
How do you know that what you read on the internet is true and valid?
Are there tools to help you decipher hoax or tabloid information from fact?
How do you know that what you read on the internet is true and valid?
Are there tools to help you decipher hoax or tabloid information from fact?

Website Evaluation Tutorial:
Click on the image to the right to navigate to an interactive online tutorial to learn more about how to effectively know if the information found within a website is credible.

BrainPop
Click on the image to the left to navigate to the BrainPop website to view a movie and complete online activities about how to evaluate digital resources effectively. Here you will need to enter the school's username and password (see your teacher).
Click on the image to the left to navigate to the BrainPop website to view a movie and complete online activities about how to evaluate digital resources effectively. Here you will need to enter the school's username and password (see your teacher).

CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three CyberPigs
In this sequel to Privacy Playground, for ages 8-10, the three CyberPigs learn some important lessons about authenticating online information and observing rules of netiquette. They also learn how to distinguish between fact and opinion and how to recognize bias and harmful stereotyping in online content. As Les, Mo and Lil discover, "just because it's on the Internet, doesn't mean it's true."
Click on the image to the left to activate a link to this interactive lesson.
In this sequel to Privacy Playground, for ages 8-10, the three CyberPigs learn some important lessons about authenticating online information and observing rules of netiquette. They also learn how to distinguish between fact and opinion and how to recognize bias and harmful stereotyping in online content. As Les, Mo and Lil discover, "just because it's on the Internet, doesn't mean it's true."
Click on the image to the left to activate a link to this interactive lesson.
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