I was struggling with teaching my students about internet research, the importance of citing sources, paraphrasing and general research. With some ideas that I "stole" from online sources (These are for educational purposes and therefore, I am covered by the Fair Use Laws), I came up with an activity that not only taught them, but entertained as well. SCORE 1 for Teacher!
I created an activity that listed 10 websites for them to visit and questions for them to answer about each site. They must determine if the site is credible and accurate,or FAKE! I found some "real-looking" sites to fool (and entertain) students with while they were working. Here are a few below:
Genochoice.com
DHMO.org
The Centaur of Volos (Google it!)
Zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
That sounds great! Thanks for helping us LA teachers get the kids on board with citing sources. It continues to amaze me, when I say to cite sources, how many look so confused. It is also annoying :)
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