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How Savvy are Your Students?: 7 Fake Websites to Really Test Their Evaluation Skills - EasyBib Blog. Guinea Farm - World's Largest Fancy Color Guinea Fowl Hatchery. Good Enough to Cite? What do we mean by Information Forensics?

Good Enough to Cite?

Forensic sciences are typically involved in legal cases. For example, Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) often involves forensic pathology to determine a cause of death in a criminal case. Dental forensics is used to reveal the identify of a body. The results of a forensic investigation are used to establish a case for innocence or guilt in court. The purpose of Web Site Investigation (WSI) is quite different. Determine the credibility of the information, and cite the information. 10 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation – TeachBytes. In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content.

10 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation – TeachBytes

There are some great resources available for educating students on this matter, such as Kathy Schrock’s Five W’s of Website Evaluation or the University of Southern Maine’s Checklist for Evaluating Websites. Along with checklists and articles, you will also find wonderfully funny hoax websites, aimed at testing readers on their ability to evaluate websites. These hoax sites are a great way to bring humor and hands-on evaluation into your classroom, and test your students’ web resource evaluation IQ! Check out these 11 example hoax sites for use in your own classrooms: Guinea Farm - World's Largest Fancy Color Guinea Fowl Hatchery. The Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency. Pacific Tree Frog. Description: Pacific treefrogs can come in brown, gray, tan and other earth tones as well as green (around Moscow Idaho, they tend to be light gray, green, or with zones of both).

Pacific Tree Frog

Their color can lighten or darken in a few minutes. Adults are about 1.25 to 1.5 inches long, and not really slender. The males have a noticeably darker throat, yellowish to dark brown in color. Habitat: An aquarium with about two inches of water with numerous rocks and plants they can escape into for hiding (and to get out of the water) works well although ponds are a great place to farm these critters. Diet: insects, namely, bought crickets dowsed in a vitamin supplement. Habits: The courting males have a high pitched ribbit, you can even hear it as the classic Hollywood "woods at night" sound effect. Miscellaneous Facts: They live in the West Coast forest wetlands, from Baja California on up into Canada. Thanks to: Darryl J. Back to Species Info Page. Save the Guinea Worm Foundation — Seven Deadly Sins. The rare Guinea Worm faces extinction.

Save the Guinea Worm Foundation — Seven Deadly Sins

Yet despite growing public support for environmentalism and preservation of endangered species, few people will speak out on the Guinea Worm's behalf. In fact, the United Nations and several prominent U.S. agencies are leading a quiet campaign to eradicate this dwindling species forever from the planet. Is the Guinea Worm the world's most endangered species?

Who Speaks for the Guinea Worms? As you read this, a cartel of powerful organizations is conspiring to exterminate a living endangered species from the planet. The Guinea Worm has few defenders. Unlike elephants, tigers, and other charismatic megafauna, the Guinea Worm has few advocates. The Save the Guinea Worm Foundation was founded to speak out where the environmental movement has remained silent, and stop the United Nations and the rest of its international Cartel from destroying the world's most endangered species forever. Dog Island Free Forever - Our Facilities. The Dog Island refers to a complex set of islands that have different purposes and areas.

Dog Island Free Forever - Our Facilities

While Dog Island is almost entirely free range territory for the dogs to enjoy, there are 5 critical facilities built on and near the island complex. 1) Immunization and Naturalization Center 2) Health & Fitness Boot Camp Dog Training Center 3) Wildlife Behavioral Recovery Center 4) Family Building Mentoring Center 5) Injury and Trauma Recovery Center The Complex of Islands Dog Island is actually made up of quite a few different islands, a complex of them. They are so beautiful. We get excited on every boat ride. 1) Mega Dog Island This is a vast island, the biggest one. 2) Huge Dogs Island There are very few dogs that need this type of attention. All About Explorers. Since this site was developed as a teaching tool for educating students about how to search better on the Internet (see About This Site for more details), we have published on this page a list of the lessons, handouts, and other tools that we have used with our own students.

All About Explorers

We encourage you to send us your own ideas. If you have created other lessons using our site, or you have suggestions or comments to make about the plans and materials included here, we would love to hear from you. Write to us at One note about the Treasure Hunts we have included here. On the main page you will see a list of links to the individual hunt pages. Lessons We have developed a series of lessons designed to introduce students to the skills and concepts of good Internet researching. Drop Bear - Australian Museum. The Drop Bear, Thylarctos plummetus, is a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the Koala.

Drop Bear - Australian Museum

Drop Bear distribution map Photographer: © Australian Museum Standard Common Name Drop Bear Identification Around the size of a leopard or very large dog with coarse orange fur with some darker mottled patterning (as seen in most Koalas). Size range.