For the students in Jen Graham's class. View the sites below and discuss why they are or are not reliable sources of information.
How do you evaluate a source based on currency, reliability, authority, and purpose/point of view? Read this.
Your topic is: Genetically Modified Foods.
View the 3 sites below:
World Health Organization
Monsanto
Center for Food Safety
On a scale of 1 - 10 (low to high), how credible did you find the information on each of the sites?
What makes one site more or less credible than the other?
If someone asked you for information on this topic, which site would you send them to?
Can you locate another site that you would prefer to share with someone who needed information on this topic?
Try this with another topic like Bisphenol-A (BPA).
Huffington Post
Fox News
Tox Town
EPA
Endocrine Disruption
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