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how do you use the Google search box to get just the right amount of information, analyze it for authenticity, and get it quickly? The new Google Search Lessons are aimed at helping teachers and students learn the inside scoop about skillful searching. Check out nine compelling and practical lessons for students to understand and be successful with the Google search process. The lessons are divided into three modules; Understanding Search Engines, Search Techniques and Strategies, and Search Features. Each topic contains three lessons that build on the skills taught in the previous lesson. Teachers can mix and match lessons depending on the skills they want to emphasize. The lessons provide a guide for teachers, inquiry questions, a slide presentation, and search challenges for students.

Use these verbs in your lessons and discussion questions to ensure that students are thinking at higher levels.

Here are some questions you might ask when you are faced with the task of reading or writing about fiction.

Very Interesting!

Join educator Bill Farren as he travels through four South American countries-three of them chosen by students. Class members will get to vote on what countries their teacher/guide visits and decide on the types of activities the class embarks on. Through their guide, students will interact with local people, ask them questions, request various media, and help solve real problems-all in an engaging format: participatory learning. Who is it for? Learners from all over the world: HS students, college students, homeschoolers, unschoolers, adult learners and classroom teachers: (HS or Univ) who'd like to enrich and connect their own class to this one.

A web site written by a professional astronomer. Explains modern astronomy, careers in astronomy, and answers popular questions from an on-line FAQ archive called Ask the Astronomer.

A list of guiding questions for readers to refer to while reading fiction.

Another "YouTube" type of site. This site has good video resources for teachers and lessons, however I would not recommend directing the students to search it in case of questionable content.

MobilAP is a web-based, platform for creating interactive conference and classroom experiences. It contains features like question/response, discussion, link sharing and scheduling. The cornerstone of the project is a Mobile Safari based front end that has an optimized experience for users of the iPhone and iPod touch.

The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question 'What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way.

This site is designed to simulate experiments, allow the collection of data, and provide some guiding questions to help the user develop an insight to the phenomenon being studied.

The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators and librarians address common questions about the use of technology in teaching and learning by providing easy access to practical, online resources and activities. Check out the Project Overview for more information.

Welcome to a collaborative site where educators can discover new assessment practices, as well as ideas for refining their current systems or processes. This purely objective resource is for educators committed to ensuring student success through best assessment practices. Share your knowledge. Ask questions. Get expert insight into today's most pressing challenges and most innovative ideas.

Questions about PowerPoint? Answers. Here! You'll find PowerPoint Help, PowerPoint Templates, PowerPoint Tips, PowerPoint Add-ins, How-Tos, Links and much more.

Classroom strategies to engender student questioning.

This site contains the answers to the most often asked questions to NASA. The answers are in video clips that can be viewed or downloaded and viewed.

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A target game to play on the ActivBoard composed of basic chemistry questions.

"A series of lessons for creating and implementing a classroom economy. Students learn an introduction to economics by being actively involved in a mini economy, named MoneyInstructor-nomics. This 10-week unit is compressed into 15 lessons. Each lesson includes background, objectives for the teacher, a detailed, sep-by-step plan, a selection of student activities, questions, journal topics, examples, or templates. The lessons begin with an overview for the teacher, sample parent letter, background, objectives, and class activities."

Tap the knowledge of people in your network! 1. Send Aardvark a question. 2. Aardvark finds the perfect person to answer. 3. Get their response in a few minutes.

"ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: 1. find a topic (see example topic questions?) 2. create a good thesis statement (see an example?) 3. and generate an outline (see an example?)"