1. Evaluation of websites
1) Caterpillar’s anatomy:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/activities/printouts/caterpillar
printout.shtml
1- Accuracy: Enchanted learning wrote this page.
It’s a site in which you can become a subscriber and access to all its content.
2- Currency: this page is up-to-date. Its information coincides with other sources.
This page was last updated in 2010.
3- Content: this site offers our learners all the information they need to complete the
activities supplied by the teacher.
4- Functionality: there are four other links to which students can have access for more
information. They work perfectly well.
In these sites you can find a wide variety of pictures, diagrams and activities for
children.
2) Facts on caterpillars
http://www.ehow.com/info_8088319_caterpillars.html
2. 1- Accuracy: this article was written by Claire Louise who was a top contributor. Claire
Louise started writing professionally in 2007. She has written for the "Newcastle
Morning Herald" and had diet and fitness-related articles published in "Slimming and
Health" magazine. Louise holds a Bachelor of Communications from the University of
Newcastle.
This page is called eHow – Discover the expert in you.
The information about the life of the caterpillar coincides with other articles.
The references used in this page are:
Switcheroo Zoo: Caterpillar
Butteryfly House: Frequently Asked Questions about Caterpillars
Trek Nature: Cinnabar caterpillar
Encounter South Africa: South African Cuisine - A Melting Pot
University of Florida: Stinging and Venomous Caterpillars; D.E. Short, D.H. Habeck and
J.L. Castner
2- Currency: this site was last updated in 2012. Its content is really up-to-date and it is
the same information as you can find in other web pages.
3- Content: its content is very easy to read so that students can understand it without
much difficulty. It includes a lot of links to navigate and to find more information on
the topic. Its images are from real natural life, activities for children, crafts and videos.
4- Functionality: all the content from the page works without any difficulties and quite
fast.
3) More about caterpillars:
http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/insects/butterfly
3. 1- Accuracy: this page belongs to the San Diego Zoo. It’s an excellent page to look for
information about insects and all the information it provides is written by experts on
the subject.
2- Currency: this page was last updated in 2012. Its creators modify the information
constantly.
3- Content: the first impression children will get while searching this page will be
fantastic. As you open it it’s full of colors, images from all types of animals, it has real
sound from these creatures all the time, real videos, real photographs, games,
activities and all the information about the zoo. Children will be spending a lot of time
in this page because its information is really easy to follow and it’s really interesting.
4- Functionality: this page is full of links which students can visit without stopping
searching for information or playing games. Videos, photos and its real sound are of
high quality.
4) The life-cycle of the butterfly – video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8sAHQYvVf0&feature=fvsr
4. 1- Accuracy: this is a video uploaded in you tube. It was taken from the ‘Turtle diary’
page. You’ll find over 1,000 interactive educational games, kids' video resources,
science and experiments. It was created by educators for parents and teachers.
2- Currency: It was last updated in 2012. Its information coincides with other pages.
3- Content: this site was created for children to enjoy learning by playing games using
the internet and the computer. It also contains worksheets, jigsaw and couple games,
arts and crafts and kids stories on any topic you want to work on.
Teachers can also find lesson plans.
4- Functionality: this page is full of colors, videos and activities which work perfectly
well. Students won’t find any problems when navigating this site.
5) The body of the butterfly:
http://www.english-online.at/biology/butterflies/butterflies-and-moths.htm
5. 1- Accuracy: this page was created by Klaus Rosmanitz. He studied English and
Geography at the University in Graz, where he received a Master’s Degree in 1981. He
has had over 25 years of teaching experience at the Bundes-Oberstufengymnasium in
Deutchlandsberg, Styria. In the past years, he has been working on special projects like
English across the Curriculum.
2- Currency: this site was last updated on August 2012.
3- Content: This website is specially designed for learners of English. The articles are
carefully chosen and rewritten, so that they can be more easily understood. Each
article has a vocabulary list at the end. There are a few hundred topics and special
news articles in various categories. It has many exercises for children to complete,
videos, news articles and photos related to the topics searched.
4- Functionality: all these site’s features work well and every link being offered by this
page does not present any difficulty to surf.
6) Butterflies’ anatomy:
http://teachers.greenville.k12.sc.us/sites/aproches/INSECT
%20PROJECT/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=2
1- Accuracy: this is a blog created by a teacher for her students. She graduated from
university with a Bachelor’s of arts degree in early childhood in 2007. The information
found in this blog is taken from others and every piece of information agrees.
2- Currency: this site was last modified in 2009
3- Content: this blog offers great websites to surf about literacy, games for kids,
animals’ activities, world’s pictures and videos, etc. All these links work well.
4- Functionality: this site offers projects students have made on insects and you can
open each of them without any difficulties.
6. 7) The life-cycle of the butterfly - Information and videos
http://www.thebutterflysite.com/life-cycle.shtml
1- Accuracy: this site is frequently visited for the most complete and current butterfly
information on the internet. These butterfly pages contain articles written by Master
of Science degreed Entomologist Randi Jones as well as butterfly links to sites all over
the web for EVEN MORE information on butterflies.
2- Currency: All information is updated frequently. It does not say the last time it was
updated.
3- Content: in this site you can explore 12 butterfly topics with over 125 pages packed
full of butterfly information. You can also check out all the fun, butterfly activities and
coloring pages. Read fun facts to amaze your friends or learn about butterfly biology.
There is a butterfly activity page that you can explore for fun projects like rearing LIVE
butterflies, coloring pages, pictures on butterflies, winter activities with butterflies and
real videos about the life-cycle of the caterpillar. There are also some useful butterfly
life cycle and monarch butterfly links suggested from other pages.
7. 4- Functionality: the videos and its sounds work well. The quality of the images is of
high-definition. All the links suggested by the page are not broken.
8) Longman Dictionary
http://www.ldoceonline.com/
1- Accuracy: this site was created by Pearson Longman
2- Currency: it was last updated on May 2012. All the information provided by this site
coincides with the other pages.
3- Content: it provides:
Dictionary Search - Fully searchable contents of the A-Z text of the Longman Dictionary
of Contemporary English
English Pronunciation - Selected headwords pronounced in British and American
English (Buy the full CD-ROM version for pronunciation of ALL headwords, including
names of people and places)
Example Sentences - Selected example sentences pronounced, to help improve the
intonation.
Reading and writing solutions - Words, phrases and meanings. Longman writing
assistant. Word combinations. Collocation and word focus boxes.
4- Functionality: all its examples and links provided to the learners are very easy to
follow and open.
9) The Wordsmyth Dictionary
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
8. 1- Accuracy: In the early 1980s, while Robert Parks was on a Fulbright Fellowship in
Japan, he did some consulting with a Japanese electronics company. They were
interested in adding functionality for students to their computers. He eventually
agreed to develop a dictionary for them. Our editing manual and procedures involved
use of both primary and secondary sources. Dr. Parks' direction, a group full-time
editors (whose number varied from two to four during the project) and a staff of
writers, eventually numbering over twenty, worked in Ithaca for over five years
producing an original American English Dictionary. This was a distinguished group of
writers and editors, many of whom held advanced degrees.
2- Currency: it was last updated in 2012. All the information provided by this site
coincides with the other English dictionary pages.
3- Content: you can create a multiple choice quiz using words or definitions as clues
with fully customizable answer choices; take quizzes online- the process of creating a
quiz is the same as always, but when you're done, you can choose to print it or
to complete it online and get instant feedback; antonyms; real audio pronunciations;
new images and animations; thousands of new example sentences; the Wordsmyth
Beginner's Dictionary-Thesaurus has very easy-to-read entries written with a simple
defining vocabulary of 2000 words.
4- Functionality: all its examples and links provided to the learners are very easy to
follow and open.
10) The Hangman game
http://www.hangman.no/
9. 1- Accuracy: the reference of the author is not mentioned (it’s a game).
2- Currency: the reference of the date is not mentioned
3- Content: in this application you can play existing games, play against a friend or
make your own word lists for online distribution. This game uses Flash. You can click
the on-screen keyboard or use your actual keyboard to input letters.
4- Functionality: this game does not present other links. The page works without any
problems
