The website I evaluated, Science with me, was a free educational website for elementary age children. The website offers science movies, songs, coloring sheets, worksheets, articles, blogger “Science with Mom!” projects and stories to help children learn scientific principles and science the fun way. They consider themselves as an interactive online science community for kids, teachers, parents, and home-schoolers. Not only is this website full of useful science lessons, it is appealing to children within the K12 range, the information is interesting for children and is presented in an engaging way, and parents are encouraged to become involved with their children on the website by being their science experiment assistant. Teachers could allow children to browse the website during school and chose a focus they want to research. The teachers could then assign them the experiment related to that study focus for them to conduct at home with their parents and then report back to the class with the results. I would highly recommend this website!
I enjoyed the website evaluation experience because it taught me what to look for when deciding whether websites are trustworthy before introducing them to your classroom. Evaluating websites before introducing them or advising students to look into them is very important in order to keep one's reliability secure as a teacher.
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