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WorksheetsY6 Verifying Online Sources
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 6mins
BBC.com is a ________________ news website.
Reliable
Untrustworthy
Useless
Clickbait
Which of these MUST you do to determine if a source is reliable?
Checking to see if you like the website.
Search Wikipedia for the answer.
Verify the author.
Make sure the website ends in .edu.
An online claim is trustworthy if
The author's name is shown.
The date the author originally provided the information is present.
You can check elsewhere to prove the claim.
All of the above.
To determine the reliability of an unfamiliar website, you should look into the:
The number of pages the website has.
The pictures on the website.
Author reliability.
The website design.
Which of the following is not an example of a personal website or content?
a online news article
a TikTok video
a YouTube video
a SnapChat photo
You are researching space and you find a website that explains that Pluto is a planet. In verifying the website, you examine where links go from the site. Which ones would you trust the most?
Links to an astronaut's Instagram page
Links to a Twitter account
Links to the movie Space Jam 2
Links to www.Nasa.gov
A reliable source is
biased.
trusted.
promoting a product.
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not a trusted source because
most of the information there is false.
anyone can add to or edit it.
your teacher says you can't use it.
the information might be outdated.
