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VVFirst, review the Website Evaluation Template document. Follow the instructions in that document and complete the table using two of the six sites in the Shapiro Library tutorial. Note that your completed table will not need to be submitted, but you will need to fill it out to complete this activity.
Then use the information from your completed table to address the following:
Report your scores for your two chosen sites from the Shapiro Library website tutorial. Be sure to include hyperlinks to the specific articles and sub-pages you examined in your work.
Which of your two chosen resources would you consider to be more valid? Explain your choice.
Next, use the news story you selected and the results of your Shapiro Library research and respond to the following:
Briefly summarize (in 1 to 2 sentences) the natural science topic featured in your chosen news story.
How would you go about finding more information on the topic that you chose? List at least two different sources that you would consider reliable.
Briefly explain why you think these are reliable sources of information to help you find out more about your topic.
Evaluating Sources
This guide will provide you with information that you can use to critically evaluate sources including websites, articles and reports, books and ebooks, etc.
Evaluating Sources: Home
Intro to Evaluating Sources
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Website Evaluation Tutorial
This tutorial is intended to help you learn how to evaluate websites (and other sources of information) by examining the criteria necessary to evaluate sources and practicing evaluating websites.
First, examine these two pages for information about evaluating websites and other sources:
Evaluating Sources Using C.R.A.A.P.O.
What About Websites?
Activity
Evaluate the following websites using the criteria from the Evaluating Sources Using C.R.A.A.P.O. and What About Websites?pages. Check out the Source Evaluation Rubric for a step-by-step evaluation tool.
Ask yourself: Would I use this website in an academic paper or project?
Note: Each of these sites is returned in the first page of a Google search on "Global Warming" -- notice the range of site types and quality
Due to the recent government shutdown, Site #2 from the EPA and Site #6 from NOAA may not be working. Students using this activity in SCI-100 are instructed to pick from the other options until the websites are back to functioning.
Site #1
Site #2
Site #3
Site #4
Site #5
Site #6
Activity - SB 200
Evaluate the following websites using the criteria from the Evaluating Sources Using C.R.A.A.P.O. and What About Websites?pages. Check out the Source Evaluation Rubric for a step-by-step evaluation tool.
Ask yourself: Would I use this website in an academic paper or project?
Note: Each of these sites is returned in the first page of a Google search on "Tootsie Roll" -- notice the range of site types and quality!
Site #1
Site #2
Site #3
Site #4
Site #5
Site #6
