Third Grade Website Evaluation

As you research the provided websites, use the checklist, and answer the questions to evaluate them. Make sure you are reading caefully in order to find all of the information that you need.

Part One: Website Checklist

How does it look? Check yes or no in the column	Yes	No
Does the website take a long time to load?
Are there big pictures on the page?
Is the spelling and grammar on the page correct?
Are there dates that tell you when the page was made?
Is the author's name and email address on the page?

Part Two: Answer the following questions after you look over the website.

1. Where does the information come from?

2. What makes this site easy to use?

3. Why is the information on the site useful for my purpose?

 

Part Three: Look back over your checklist, and the questions that you answered. Write a short summary on why you think that this website could be useful to you and your classmates. Think about the amount of information you found, and whether or not it could help you learn more about the topic

25 Websites:

1. HalloweenWebsite.com: This website could be very useful for parents before Halloween because it gives safety tips for trick or treating, how to make sure costumes are safe, and recipes that can serve as a healthy alternative to candy.

2. Hearse.com: I wouldn't say this website is relevant to anything that I would use or teach in a classroom. It is user friendly and could be useful if you were in the funeral business.

3. Allhallowseve.com: This website was really cool, and could be a great tool to use in the classroom or at home. 

4. Adoptionworld.org: This was a very simple website that gives the history of Halloween, and how it is celebrated around the world. It was user friendly, and could be a good site to use for a Halloween history lesson.

5. Rythospital.com: This was not a useful website at all. The pictures that it shows on the home page really gets the reader interested, but then when you click on any of the categories, it goes to a blank "server not found" page. 

6. DHMO.org: This website was packed with information that could be useful in the classroom if the teacher were using it. The small print and large words would prevent me from giving it to my students to explore for themselves.

7. Zapatopi.net: This website would be fun for use at home, but I would not use it in the classroom. The site is full of false information about a made up creature.

8. TheOnion.com: Older students and adults would like this website, but younger children wouldn't get much out of it. It would be useful to find information to relay to students, but I would not allow them to explore it on their own in fear of them coming across something inappropriate.

9. Ovaprima.org: This website offers a lot of information about eggs, such as background on how it was found, and how they are being used for science. This website could be useful to some.

10. Answers.yahoo.com (The Holocaust): There is without a doubt, no way that I would use this website in my classroom. It is full of false information. 

11. Alaska.net/TheFlatEarthSociety: This website is about a society that believes that the earth is flat, when it has been proven for thousands of years that it is round. Some of the pages the site has were under construction. I would not use this site for my students. 

12. Havidol.com: This website could be useful for someone that is researching drugs, or may have the symptoms that this drug helps. It is irrelevant to anything that I would use in  my classroom so I would not use it.

13. Deadlysins.com/guiniaworm: This website could be useful for a particular audience. It was informational, and somewhat user friendly.

14. MJT.org: This would be a great website to use before going on a field trip, or even to go on a virtual field trip. There are pictures of some of the exhibits, and a lot of information that could be used. This is definitely something that I would use.

15. Descy.50megs.com/mankato: This site would be good to take students on a virtual field trip, and could help them learn more about Minnesota. The site is user friendly, and would be appropriate enough for students to explore on their own. 

16. hetracil.com: I would consider this site very controversial, and would not use it in my classroom. 

17. Ding.net/BonsaiKittens: This website is sick and I would never show it to my students. It should be taken down completely...

18. descy.50megs.com: This website could have been very useful if the information that was given matched the pictures on the site. Since there was not valuable, or correct information, I would not use this website.

19. Modernplasztika.co: I could not tell if the website was being serious about the services it was offering, however, the site was user friendly and had a lot of information on it.

20. zapatopi.net: Like the tree octopus site, this is giving information about a mythical creature so I can't say that I would let students use this site in the classroom. It was, however, user friendly and had a lot of external links that were easy to get to and from the site. 

21. thedogisland.com: This website was very funny and would be great for children to use at home. It was user friendly which was nice, but there were a lot of inappropriate ads surrounding the page which made me question if children should be on it all. 

22. brandrepublic.com: There were a lot of ads surrounding this page, and made it hard to focus on what was supposed to be read. The video that was to be watched, cut off half way through and required a download to continue watching. 

23. buydehydratedwater.com: This site, like many of the others was selling something as a joke. There was an external link that took the reader to Amazon to purchase the product, but said it was unavailable. I don't think this would be a good website to let children use.

24. Stephenswork.com: This site was user friendly and silly enough to allow kids to be on it. I liked how it gave reasons why the shoes were important in history and explained who wore them.

25. mollosia.org: This website had very small print which made it difficult to read. The pages off of the home page were very plain, and not very informational.