You have been hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to evaluate the practices of SeaWorld. Your research question is: Should SeaWorld be shut down due to alleged reports of animal cruelty? For your initial research, I have compiled a collection of sources on SeaWorld that you either will or will not use in your initial report, based on the credibility of the sources.
Since this is a very important task, you will need to note the qualities in each source that you think makes it either credible (and therefore worth using in your initial investigation) or not credible.
At the conclusion of this Webquest, you will not only have completed your initial research for your investigation of SeaWorld, but you will have a concise list of criteria that all credible sources have in common. In short, you will compile two documents: 1) A list that sorts the provided resources into credible and non-credible sources; and 2) A rubric that lists the characteristics of credible sources.
Remember, anyone can publish information on the Internet, and therefore not everything you read on the Internet is true. You never want to embarrass yourself or others by reporting false information that you read from an unreliable source.
Since this is a very important task, you will need to note the qualities in each source that you think makes it either credible (and therefore worth using in your initial investigation) or not credible.
At the conclusion of this Webquest, you will not only have completed your initial research for your investigation of SeaWorld, but you will have a concise list of criteria that all credible sources have in common. In short, you will compile two documents: 1) A list that sorts the provided resources into credible and non-credible sources; and 2) A rubric that lists the characteristics of credible sources.
Remember, anyone can publish information on the Internet, and therefore not everything you read on the Internet is true. You never want to embarrass yourself or others by reporting false information that you read from an unreliable source.