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Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students, and we have to do it over and over again. We never question the vital importance of teaching literacy, but we have to be mindful that there are many kinds of "literacies". An ever more important one that ALL teachers need to be aware of is digital literacy. I could go off in many directions on this, but for the purpose of this post I'm focusing strictly on the digital literacy of searching.

Students, teachers and the public turn to their librarians for help researching everything from technology to genealogy to homework help and lesson plans. Even if your library is equipped with subscriptions and memberships to top of the line databases and online journals, you've probably had to get creative during a patron's requested search for something unfamiliar.

Free Search Engine for Learning Millions of resources for 5th-12th grade science, math and social science courses at our fingertips.

Good google search tricks

How to search Oliver - tricks involved!

Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.

Plagium is a cool plagirism detection tool. Just paste in the original portion of text ( shoulnd't be more than 250 characters) and hit "search". You can also check URLs and files but you will have to sign up with them. The service is free of charge.

Keep that creativity and inquiry going with Google a day... use google search techniques to solve the answers to questions daily.

Book Reviews: search for the book you're curious about

The titles I have for you below are supposed to help you and your student carry out research and improve your digital search skills.

Inquiry Models explained.

Blooms Taxonomy Resources Galore!