Evaluating Websites

The amount of information available on the Internet is astonishing, and it keeps growing. Therefore, students should learn this critical skill to determine whether the information they have found is relevant and reliable. In this unit based on evaluating websites students:
* Read a text on website evaluation
* Do a vocabulary activity on prefixes and suffixes
* Answer the questions about the text
* Visit a website and do the activities there to learn more about website evaluation
* Choose a website among the ones given in the list and evaluate it by answering the questions in a graphic organizer
* Prepare a 5–8 - minute oral presentation on it by using the information in the organizer and following the oral presentation guidelines
* Evaluate their own oral presentation and their peers' by filling in the self and peer assessment forms
* Prepare a leaflet on website evaluation for younger students.
The lesson also includes two rubrics - one for the oral presentation and the other for the leaflet.
This unit can be used with English Language Learners as well.