Jackson Creek Middle School

Evaluating Web Sources

Practice Sites

 

Here are fifteen real websites. Are they real or hoaxes? Defend your answer using the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to evaluate these sites.

1. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie 

2. The Jackalope Conspiracy

3. British Stick Insect

4. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

5. Burger King Burger

6. Continental Drift

7. The Dangers of Bread

8. Civil War Facts

9. Haggis Hunt

10. Republic of Molossia

11. Dog Island

12. Buydehydratedwater.com

13. Fun with Grapes

14. Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

15. Dihydrogen Monoxide

 

Home Purpose: What? Accuracy: Where? Currency: When? Objectivity: Why? Presentation: How? Bibliography

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