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"The handy infographic below takes a look at how to get the most out of Google when you're doing online research. So whether you're helping your students learn how to find the information they need, or if you're doing your own research for professional development or personal interests, you can be an effective, efficient researcher. Keep reading to learn more!"

Students can research by topic from a variety of websites. Reading levels will vary depending on subject and source.

Research in groups of 4 to study and present a travel brochure on one of Earth's Biomes.

Students can research a specific body system and complete tasks in a competition format. Includes lesson, tasks, resources, and rubric.

Simple research site for younger students, user friendly, and easy to navigate

"ReadWorks provides over 1,400 K-8 non-fiction and literary reading passages, each with a research-based question set to support student comprehension." Passages can be sorted by grade level, lexile level or skill/strategy

Search Engine/Online Encyclopedia that is built for kids. Students can search by topic for encyclopedia like articles or additional links to websites of true kid friendly information.

This chrome extension will summarize and focus an online article. You can focus more by clicking on key words. Use with any online article. Eliminate distraction and get it ready for reluctant readers.

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET™ project at the University of Colorado. WAY cooler than it sounds.