Content Area Web Sites

Web site #1:

Normandy Invasion, June 1944
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/normandy.htm

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Web site #2

Invasion of Normandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy

How I would use these web sites for instruction:

I intend to use these websites to demonstrate to the students what a dependable and an undependable web site looks like and contains.  I have created an "Evaluating Web Sites" worksheet which will be given to secondary school students to prepare them for a future research project.  Students will be directed to visit the above websites and use the below evaluation form to determine the dependability of each site.

Questions include:

• Who is responsible for the content of the site?
• How recent is the site?  When was it last updated?
• Does it seem that a specific audience is being targeted?  (Example: age, grade, race, etc.)
• Can you tell when the information at this site is a fact or an opinion?

Once they have completed the assignment, the students should have a better understanding of how to determine which web sites are more dependable than others.  This skill may require extra practice by some students.