Biodiversity in New Zealand Wildlife

6. Website review

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to:

design a template to logically and concisely review a website;
critically evaluate, using template, a website that they have used to gather information.

Teaching and learning activities

Students will realise that websites vary greatly in their usefulness and quality. The purpose of this lesson is to encourage critical thinking skills through a website critique.

Discuss features of a website.

What makes a good website?
What features do you want a website to contain?

Hyperlinks

For an example of website review guidelines see: http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/website_review_guide.html

For a set of review criteria see:
http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/interact/criteria.php

As a class design a website review template. Use the above websites for ideas on how to construct this. Students review one of the websites used in the kiwi(pdf, 16kb), (word, 55kb) or kakapo(pdf, 8kb), (word, 63kb) website activity and share their results in small groups.