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Worksheets6th grade Web Evaluation Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The publisher of a restaurant’s website is most likely to be:
A food critic
The head chef
The restaurant's owner
A loyal customer
Which of the following is an example of an open domain?
.net
.mil
.gov
.edu
Which organization's website would have a ".gov" domain?
A presidential candidate's campaign
A city mayor's office
A political news show
A health care lobbying firm
To decide if you can trust an unfamiliar site, you should look into the:
Publication date and number of pages on the site
Privacy policy on the site
Publisher, author and domain of the site
Design, photos and text fonts used on the site
In evaluating an online article about Albert Einstein’s work, what is the most important factor?
The domain of the website
The publication date of the article
The number of sources cited
The qualifications of the author
Who of these would be the most trustworthy author of a Revolutionary war blog?
A professor of Russian Literature
A collector of Civil War memorabilia
A tour guide at a national history museum
A professor of Early American History
An informed opinion must be:
Biased
Filled with emotion
Based on facts and reasoning
Formed within the past year
CITATIONS indicate that a website is more _________ friendly.
teacher
student
grandparent
parent
An article posted in 2001 would be most useful in researching:
The latest climate change data
21st-century tech advances
The long-term effects of 9/11
New Yorker's experiences on 9/11
The author of information on a website should have:
Good website design qualifications
Expertise in the topic they are writing about
Lots of funding
A nice headshot on their "About Us" page
What is the most important information to discover when evaluating a website?
Who PUBLISHED this website?
Who DESIGNED this website?
Who WROTE this website?
Who took the PHOTOS on this website?
What is the DOMAIN of a website?
The three letters the come after the last dot in the address, like .org or .edu
The place on earth where the website is located.
The www part of the website.
The very end of the website address, where the .html is located.
The people or organizations who PAY for a website to be online are the:
Tax Leaders
Publishers
Parents
Bosses
To find out more about the author of a website, you can:
(multiple answers are OK here!)
Read the biography about the author on the website
Google the name of the author and do some "detective work"
Ask your friends or parents if they have ever heard of that person.
You don't need to find out more - they wrote a website, so they must be an expert already.
What should you try to discover when reading information on any website?
The GOAL of the author and publisher
The spelling and grammar on a website
The beauty of the website design
The popularity of the website's sponsors
