Resources are a very important part of a webquest. While many of the resources for the quest are found through Web sites, it is important to evaluate the sites and teach students to evaluate and cite sites that are relevant and acceptable. Your job as the teacher is to be able to identify the sources that you want your students to use. The possibilities are listed below.

Types of Sources:

• Print resources, this includes journals, magazines, and books.  Print resources may even give you addresses for appropriate sites for your topic.
• Search Engines, key words and phrases are important and teach students to use the help sections of the search engines.
• Web sites( they fall into three categories)

• Commercial: they are supported by corporations, networks, newspapers etc.-information is usually current, but advertisement is distracting.
• Noncommercial: museums, public school systems, government information, they are usually free of advertisement and are fairly reliable.
• Personal individual sites: usually the most unreliable of all the sites. Anyone can publish so some information is very good and some of it is very inappropriate.

Food for Thought: Students need to be taught what is a good website. How does one decide if the information is credible? How can you tell if the information is accurate? Teach the students how to cite sources, especially information taken from the Internet.