Group items tagged

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

Narrow down your search results by adding symbols and words to your search called search operators. Don't worry about memorizing every operator - 

This guide will help you identify keywords and concepts in an assignment topic, explain how to develop a search strategy for databases searching, and provide searching tips.

Looking for help on how to use search engines better? This page provides a guide to key material within Search Engine Watch, resources across the web and articles written about searching better.

Article from LearnNC's Instructify blog that describes how to use the advanced search function in Google to filter search results by reading level - basic, intermediate, and advanced.

Article from LearnNC's Instructify blog that describes how to use the advanced search function in Google to filter search results by reading level - basic, intermediate, and advanced.

teaching kids how to search for things

Blog with descriptions of great search engines for young students

Google Search Tips and Tricks

A free course to sharpen your search skills 

Google Search Guide

lesson_plans internet_resources elementary search, australia

images for Depth of Knowledge

Ten Tips for Teaching Students how to Research and Filter Information