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Activity 1

Take a look at this web page and read it carefully:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zt9thyc

Activity 2

A URL can often tell you a lot about a page before you even visit it. The image below has some key facts for you to read.

Other URL endings might be:

• Government site .gov
• International Company (usually American) .com
• Company (usually British) .co.uk
• Organisation (often a charity) .org
• An educational site (often a university) .ac
• School .sch

Activity 3

To find trustworthy information online you should consider the following:

• Type (.com, .co, .org, .gov, .ac, .sch)
• Purpose (Selling, advertising, Informing etc.)
• Author
• Will the purpose, the Author or the type make the website bias?
• Last updated
• Professional (Layout, errors, broken links etc.)

Is a Wikipedia a trustworthy source?

What could you look for on a Wikipedia page that would make it more trustworthy?

Activity 4

The following 2 URL’s are not real. If they were real, which one would you trust?

www.KFC.co.uk/junk.food.facts

www.junkfoodfacts.gov.uk/KFC

Activity 5

Compare these real websites for their trustworthiness:

Manchester United Related:

http://www.manutd.com

http://www.muscbb.co.uk

Michael Jackson Related:

http://www.geniusmichaeljackson.com

http://www.michaeljackson.com/us/home

Try to find an official website and then an unofficial one for the same topic and compare them by looking at each of the bullet points below:

• Type (.com, .co, .org, .gov, .ac, .sch)
• Purpose (Selling, Advertising, Informing etc.)
• Author
• Will the purpose, the Author or the type make the website bias?
• Last updated
• Professional (Layout, errors, broken links etc.
• Adverts
• Links to other webpages

Use photo editing software to create a fake image and news article. Show the students how to create their own fake images so that they can see how simple it is to do this. An example image is below: