WorksheetsWebsite Literacy Quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 6mins
You need to find information about the planet Saturn for a school project. Your teacher wants one of your sources to be a web page. You have found several that may work, but you must evaluate them to make sure that they are good sites. Using the choices below, select the question that will NOT help you evaluate the sites.
Who is the author of the information?
How many people use the site?
When was the site last updated?
Is the author an expert on the subject?
Which domains are the most reliable?
.gov and .edu
.net and .gov
.com and .net
.org and .com
Websites found through a search engine like Google:
Are always a good source for research
Are never a good source reserach
May be a good source for research, but must be carefully and critically evaluated because anybody can publish almost anything online
The Internet Archive: Wayback Machine can be used to
explore fashion trends from the 1960s and 1970s.
explore deleted personal email messages
explore social medial posts.
explore digital library of web history
easywhois.com can be used to
search for movie titles prior to 1949.
search for the publisher of a website.
search for 3 ingredient recipes.
search for rotary phone numbers.
What is one of the quickest ways to find who is linked to a website?
Text Google.
Speculate and talk it over with friends.
Post it on social media.
type link: in the search box of Google and then add the URL of the site you would like research.
