Evaluation Activities for Students

Elementary Level:

The following activity provides two websites about Cherokee Indians for your students to evaluate. There is a Web Site evaluation form to be completed after viewing each site.

http://wwwfac.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/521mc/sandridgep/maineval.htm

Who created and owns the site? This lesson plans gives students a chance to work cooperatively in groups to review and evaluate different sites.

http://www.anovember.com/infolit/author_act.html

Upper Elementary and Middle School Level:

Quick - The QUality Information ChecKlist gives 8 ways of checking information on Web sites. It allows the students to read for information and take a short quiz based on what they have read. It is a fun, interactive way to get students to learn how to evaluate Web pages and see what they have learned right away.

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

Critical Evaluation Surveys for Students

Kathy Schrock provides surveys for elementary, middle, and secondary level students to help students be able to critically evaluate Web pages.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Marilyn Arnone and Ruth Small have developed a guide for elementary students to follow when evaluating Web pages. They call it the Website Investigator.

http://istweb.syr.edu/AWArds/Invest.pdf

This Site provides an interactive evaluation forms for students of all levels. Students can work with two browsers and answer questions on the form while they have the site they are evaluating open. The form can be printed and turned in to you so that you can keep a list of good sites and bad sites. It will also show you what the students have learned about evaluating Web pages.

http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/evaluating.html

Web Page Evaluations for Teachers

Kathy Schrock also provides a Web page evaluation form for teachers who find sites to use in their classroom. This form allows teachers to evaluate the Site before using it during a lesson.

http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/teacherwebeval.pdf

Karen McLachlan has developed guides for teachers to evaluate Web pages for content and for design. This allows you to not only look to see if the information follows the five criteria, but it also helps you take notice of the speed and presentation.

http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html

Grammar of the Internet - Understanding a URL address Alan November has developed this site to teach users how to understand URL addresses. Being able to do this helps to figure out the authority of the site.

http://www.anovember.com/infolit/adress.html http://www.anovember.com/infolit/url.html