Where do you go to find information? How do you know the information you find is actually true?
There are several ways to do research.
1. Look in a book or reference publication (Encyclopedia, dictionary, etc)
2. Interview someone
3. Experience it and try it yourself
4. Go online to the internet
Most of you are used to finding information by doing #4, searching the Internet. The Internet is something you use frequently and also happens to be a place where there is a LOT of information to access within seconds. There are millions of websites each containing a lot of information.
But do you believe everything you read?
Check out the websites below. Please look at each one. In the end I would like you to choose 6 and respond to them using the guiding questions below in your process journal.
a) What information did you learn on this website? What is the website's purpose?
b) What makes you think it’s real? Explain details!
c) What makes you think it is not real? Explain details!
d) How could you tell if the information is reliable? Details details details! Why?
Websites:
1. The Tree Octopus – An endangered species!! Or is it?
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
2. Dangerous or useful chemical? What is it? (Clue: It's something we use every day...read carefully)
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
3. Hunting the Haggis
http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/
4. California’s Velcro Crop
http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
5. Do bears hibernate?
o http://www.pa.msu.edu/sci_theatre/ask_st/021898.html
o http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/01224.html
7. Is human cloning available by order online?
o http://www.d-b.net/dti/
8. Let your dog live happily ever after...
o http://www.thedogisland.com/
9. The true but little known facts about women and AIDS, by Dr. Juatta Lyon Fueul
o http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm
10. Were there robots in the 1890's?
o http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
11. Buy dehydrated water to save yourself from pollutants
o http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
12. Photos or Fauxtos? Can you tell which ones are fake and which are real?
a) Sandstorm, Iraq
b) "God's Painting", California
c) Giant Iceberg, Newfoundland
d) Deep Freeze, Switzerland
e) Earth on a cloudless day from Columbia via satellite
No comments:
Post a Comment