The document provides a list of 7 websites for students to evaluate on the effects of advertising on children and teens. It instructs students to choose 2 of the sites to investigate using a graphic organizer to determine whether the sites provide reliable information without bias. The graphic organizer will help students decide if a site has bias that prevents impartial judgment on the topic.

1. 2.6C Evaluating
Sources
How Credible Are They?

2. ChromeBooks
● Log on to my Swift Site
● go to Events Calendar
● click the Activity 2.6: Websites for Evaluation
Complete questions 9 & 10 on page 111 and
the chart on page 112 for two of the sites.

3. ● http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/6/2563.full
● http://www.slideshare.net/07cheerleader/effects-of-advertising-on-children-
2468020
● http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/protecting.aspx
● http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept95/vol53/num0
1/Manipulated-Kids@-Teens-Tell-How-Ads-Influence-Them.aspx
● http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/how-advertising-targets-our-childr
en/?_r=0
● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_advertising_on_teen_body_image
● http://www.ehow.com/info_8607131_effects-advertising-youth-today.html
Web sites for evaluation

4. Evaluating Online Sources
Choose two sites to investigate.
Use the graphic organizer on the next
page to help you decide whether the
website provides reliable info without
bias.
Bias - slant or slope; a
preference, especially one
that prevents impartial
judgment.