Exercise:
Verify these Web Pages
Verifying WWW
Information
---Author 
Case Study:Pesticides
---Accuracy
Case Study:AIDS
---Objectivity
Case Study:"andro"
---Currency
---Case Study:Population
Exercise
---Bill Clinton
---Cell Phones
---Maps
---Smoking
Checklist
---summary printout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Directions

  1. Print out a copy of the Checklist for Verifying a Web Site.  
  2. Start with 1 set of web sites from the list below.
  3. Go to each web site and use the checklist to attempt to verify the information that you see
  4. Record on paper ways that you are able to verify the sites information.  It will be difficult (impossible) to verify some information.

Topic: President Bill Clinton   How Objective is the Information?

Bill Clinton, Aggressor  

IAM-Presidential Watch - Bill Clinton

Clinton-Gore Accomplishements in the State of New York

Remarks by the President in Address to the United Nations Special Session on Environment and Development


Topic: Cell Phones and Health   How Accurate is the Information?

Cell Phones Cancer Connection

Cell Phones & Electromagnetic Health Hazards 

Cellular Telephones and the Potential Hazards of RF Radiation: Responses to the Fear and Controversy

Cell Phone Safety Discussion

 

Topic: Finding Maps   How Current is the Information?

Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Map of the Ukraine

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Map of US Farming Counties

 

 

Topic: Smoking   Who is the Author?

The Cigarette Papers

Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-related Deaths

Secondhand Smoke

Tobacco Wars

 

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