Internet Reciprocal Teaching
Strategies for Critically Evaluating Websites

Come up with as many strategies as you can for determining whether the sites you were assigned are valid and reliable sources of information for a school project.

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Think about all the ways possible to verify the accuracy of your Internet sites. 
List your strategies, try them out, and present them to the class. 

Predict:  Do you think your site is a reliable source of information?

Question:  How do you know that a website has accurate information?

Clarify: How do you go about checking on the validity of websites?

Summarize:  Which strategies were most useful? Which were not?  

1. Examine your group’s websites on paper FIRST.

2. Brainstorm together all strategies you could use to determine if your sites are valid and reliable.

3. List each of the strategies your group came up with.

4. Test the strategies you listed (one at a time).

5. Evaluate how effective each of your strategies were. 

6. Provide comments to show what you tried and how you may have adjusted your strategy plan.

7. Present to the class TWO effective strategies for evaluation (show what was most helpful).

8.  Present ONE ineffective strategy for evaluation (show what didn’t work well).

Who	Site 1	Site 2
Together as a Class	Dog Island	RYT Hospital's Clyven
Group 1	Golden Gate Tunnel	Facts about the Civil War
Group 2	Penguin Warehouse	Oaklahoma Association of Wine Producers
Group 3	Furnetics	New Hartford Minnesota
Group 4	Sellafield Zoo	Facts About Ancient China
Group 5	Ova Prima Foundation	History of Robots in the Victorian Era
Group 6	Dominion of Melchizedek	World Trade Organization