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Bradley Sharpski 2/6/12 Overview: This particular website is for teachers to look at and get ideas for lesson plans on science and biology. This website contains tons of helps lesson plans and activities that all grade levels would enjoy. This website would is very fun to look at already and would be perfect for an incoming teacher that is just starting out and needs some good ideas. This site has interesting lesson plans and gives you activities and other helpful plans even for what to do on the bus. Overall this site is worth going to and looking at these great plans. Content: This website is very is to locate and very easy to find where to go for teachers to find lesson plans and other activities. This site doesn't have its author's right up front for you to look at but if there is any trouble, there is a contact tab that will take you to some one that will help you. All there is not an exact date as in month and day; it does tell us that it is updated in 2012. So I believe that would work. The quality of the information given is appropriate for school age children and helps provide teachers with great ideas. This site is very organized, easy to understand and the information I found to be sufficient related to the needs at hand. Design: This site is very is to use and uploads very fast. The lesson plans that need to be downloaded are fast and I didn't seem to have any problems with them. The homepage attracts you and the sponsors are provided and copyright is given at the bottom of the screen. This site is very is to navigate and gives you no trouble when looking around. This site works on macs as well and multimedia is awesome. This site contains tons of videos about animals and other great things. This site has it information located at the bottom of the page is easily located and up to date. There are links to other sites about animals but not helpful things a teacher could use.

ITEC Website, National Zoological Park

Lauren Peterson 10-21-13 http://netvet.wustl.edu/ssi.htm Overview: This website; directed toward elementary science, makes attempts to help educate students about different animals and organisms. It does this through links that lead to information on animals that are provided in a list on the homepage. Ultimately, the website appeared to be unsuccessful; with dead end links for most animals and organisms listed. Content: As the website offered various links to further information on animals and organisms, it failed to follow through. Some links managed to reach rather reliable resources and informative pages; while others were not as lucky. The remainder of the links on this site lead to dead ends; pages that no longer existed or pages with nothing on them. Design: Looking at the design of this website, there is little attraction and interest put into the homepage. Although there are graphics, they are small and bland. As for the navigation of the website, the links were easy to use and simple, but did not successfully link to sights that were usable. These "dead ends" may have been a result of being an old website that has not been updated for years. Overall, the design could use updating and correction.